Dimnet, Ernest, — What We Live By.

NY, Simon and Schuster, (1932). 3rd ptg. VG. Red binding, gilt lettering (rubbed), tanning to hinges, former owner name front endpaper. The French priest comments on the three aspects of "Being" in classical metaphysics: (Verum) the true; Pulchrum (the beautiful); Bonum (the good). He also distinguishes between the activities of upstairs and downstairs. The downstairs has narrow ideas, egoism, flattery, timekilling, useless traveling, frivolous weekends, continuous radio, tyrannical business and details, vanity; while the upstairs contains silence, solitude, choosing one's company, reading with a purpose, love of nature, good music, best books, and self-reform for a cause.