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Much has been written by critics, especially by those (the native land of criticism), upon the important question, whether to please or to instruct should be the end of Fiction—whether a moral purpose is or is not in harmony with the undidactic spirit perceptible in the higher works of the imagination. And the general result of the discussion has been in favour of those who have contended that Moral Design, rigidly so called, should be excluded from the aims of the Poet; that his Art should regard only the Beautiful, and be contented with the indirect moral tendencies, which can never fail the creation of the Beautiful. Certainly, in fiction, to interest, to please, and sportively to elevate —to take man from the low passions, and the miserable troubles of life, into a higher region, to beguile weary and selfish pain, to excite a genuine sorrow at vicissitudes not his own, to raise the passions into sympathy with heroic struggles—and to admit the soul into that serener atmosphere from which it rarely returns to ordinary existence, without some memory or association which ought to enlarge the domain of thought and exalt the motives of action;—such, without other moral result or object, may satisfy the Poet,* and constitute the highest and most universal morality he can effect. But subordinate to this, which is not the duty, but the necessity, of all Fiction that outlasts the hour, the writer of imagination may well permit to himself other purposes and objects, taking care that they be not too sharply defined, and too obviously meant to contract the Poet into the Lecturer—the Fiction into the Homily. The delight in Shylock is not less vivid for the Humanity it latently but profoundly inculcates; the healthful merriment of the Tartufe is not less enjoyed for the exposure of the Hypocrisy it denounces.

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Excerpt from Night and Morning; Leila, or the Siege of Granada; Pausanias the SpartanThey owe me at least this, - that I prepared the way for their reception, and that they would have been less popular and more misrepresented, if the outcry which bursts upon the first researches into new directions had not exhausted its noisy vehemence upon me.In this Novel of Night and Morning I have had vari ous ends in view, subordinate, I grant, to the higher and more durable morality which belongs to the Ideal, and ih structs 11s playfully while it interests in the passions and through the heart. First, to deal fearlessly with that uni versal unsoundness in social justice which makes distino~ tions so marked and iniquitous between Vice and Crime, namely, between the corrupting habits and the violent act which scarce touches the former with the lightest twig in the fasces; which lifts against the latter the edge of the Lictor's axe. Let a child steal an apple in spert, let a starveling steal a roll in despair, and Law conducts them to the Prison, for evil commune to mellow them for the' gibbet. But let a man spend one apprenticeship from youth to old age in vice, let him devote a fortune, perhaps colossal, to the wholesale demoralization of his kind, and he may be surrounded with the adulation of the so-called virtuous, and be served upon its knee by that Lackey, the Modern World! I say not that Law can, or that Law should, reach the Vice as it does the Crime but I say that Opinion may be more than' the servile shadow of Law. I impress not here, as in Paul Clifford, a material moral to work its effect on the Journals, at the Hustings, through Constituents, and on Legislation I direct myself to a chan nel less active, more tardy, but as sure, to the Conscience that reigns, elder and superior to all Law, in men's hearts and souls. I utter boldly and loudly a truth, if not all untold, murmured feebly and falteringly before; sooner o'r later it will find its way into the judgment and the conduct.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Night and Morning; Leila, or the Siege of Granada; Pausanias the SpartanThey owe me at least this, - that I prepared the way for their reception, and that they would have been less popular and more misrepresented, if the outcry which bursts upon the first researches into new directions had not exhausted its noisy vehemence upon me.In this Novel of Night and Morning I have had vari ous ends in view, subordinate, I grant, to the higher and more durable morality which belongs to the Ideal, and ih structs 11s playfully while it interests in the passions and through the heart. First, to deal fearlessly with that uni versal unsoundness in social justice which makes distino~ tions so marked and iniquitous between Vice and Crime, namely, between the corrupting habits and the violent act which scarce touches the former with the lightest twig in the fasces; which lifts against the latter the edge of the Lictor's axe. Let a child steal an apple in spert, let a starveling steal a roll in despair, and Law conducts them to the Prison, for evil commune to mellow them for the' gibbet. But let a man spend one apprenticeship from youth to old age in vice, let him devote a fortune, perhaps colossal, to the wholesale demoralization of his kind, and he may be surrounded with the adulation of the so-called virtuous, and be served upon its knee by that Lackey, the Modern World! I say not that Law can, or that Law should, reach the Vice as it does the Crime but I say that Opinion may be more than' the servile shadow of Law. I impress not here, as in Paul Clifford, a material moral to work its effect on the Journals, at the Hustings, through Constituents, and on Legislation I direct myself to a chan nel less active, more tardy, but as sure, to the Conscience that reigns, elder and superior to all Law, in men's hearts and souls. I utter boldly and loudly a truth, if not all untold, murmured feebly and falteringly before; sooner o'r later it will find its way into the judgment and the conduct.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.