contemplative, n.All

A Contemplative (n.) fancies ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠himself a spectator before the spectacle of life, overlooking that he is the poet who keeps creating it.

A Contemplative (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the objective armchair kind, a scented voluptuary of history, half parson, half satyr, perfume by Renan, is a hundred times worse than the honest nihilist.