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Edward Bulwer Lytton

Night and Morning; Leila, or the Siege of Granada; Pausanias the Spartan

Hardcover (Forgotten Books March 14, 2018)
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.
ISBN
0364559381 / 9780364559383
Pages
936
Weight
49.6 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 1.9 in.

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