The very completeness of his prescribed studies-the exhaustive character of the curriculum-naturally induced a frame of mind not to be satisfied with anything short of absolute precision, and perhaps even apt to extend itself into Dilettanteism.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
But he was inspired by the enthusiasm of a man who feels with extreme ardor, and when he was met by the partly ironical Dilettanteism of Dorsenne he was almost pained by it, so much the more so as the author and he had some common theories, notably an extreme fancy for heredity and race.
"Cosmopolis, Complete"
Paul Bourget Last Updated: March 3, 2009
Then, brusquely: "I do not know why I like you so much, for in the main you incarnate one of those vices of mind which inspire me with the most horror, that Dilettanteism set in vogue by the disciples of Monsieur Renan, and which is the very foundation of the decline.
"Cosmopolis, Complete"
Paul Bourget Last Updated: March 3, 2009