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Principle of simplicity P31 How wonderful it would be if we could throw all the furniture out of the window; and along with it, all the meaningless reiterations concerning physical sensations, all the tiresome old pattern, and leave the room as bare as the stage of a Greek theater, or as that house into which the glory of the Pentecost descended; leave the scene bare for the play of emotions, great or little, --- for the nursery tale, no less than the tragedy, is killed by tasteless amplitude Contrast decorating the house throw all the furniture out of the window as well as other me