Should Probably Read Either
‘For despite the immense activity and industry,...’
or
‘For in spite of the immense activity and industry,...’
Oed gives:
spite, n. & v.t. 1.... (in) ~ of, notwithstanding.
Page 75: ‘fatigueing’ corrected to ‘fatiguing’.
“We have no word-symbols for defining those delicate shades of difference so important to the artist, and to be perpetually qualifying is fatiguing.”
Page 78, Footnote 4: ‘Cooper’ corrected to ‘Cowper’. (Reference: Wikipedia)