Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Above all, I dislike vulgarity.
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.