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Excerpt from The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton, Vol. 1 of 2
That Bulwer should not only have manifested so precocious a knowledge of life and manners, but should have recognized at so early an age this com plexity of human nature, this commingling of good and evil in men, a truth which is generally learned late in life, - is a striking proof of his insight. We are too apt to put men into moral pigeon-holes, to classify and label them absolutely as sheep and goats. We lump them. We think, with Berkeley, that every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. But Bulwer, even in youth, had discovered that men are made of mingled yarn, and that no just judgment of them can be packed into any such summary formula. He had learned that, as the shrub which bears the most beautiful flowers is that which also bears the keenest of thorns, so our virtues and vices are often stalks from the same root, and the very discords of our natures, like those in music, may contribute to the general harmony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
