Wilfrid Scawen Blunt — a remark

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“It needs Oriental experience to understand this.”

Insisting that direct experience could overturn assumptions formed solely in Europe · Letter quoted in diary, 29 January 1900

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

17 August 1840–10 September 1922

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, born on 17 August 1840 at Petworth in Sussex and dead on 10 September 1922 at Newbuildings Place, his Sussex home, lived a life unusually crowded with contradiction. He was an English gentleman who became one of Victorian Britain’s most persistent critics of empire; a formal, often old-fashioned…

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