Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Essays in Literary Interpretation
Old declaration that there is nothing hidden which Shall not be revealed is already fulfilled in our hear ing. Those of us who read books must be slow of mind and of heart if we have missed a real and vital knowledge of the age in which, and the men among whom, we live. An impartial spirit of revela tion presides over the world of our time and uncovers the unclean and the loathsome as persistently as the pure and the good. The selective principle of the older art has given place to a profound passion for knowledge of life; we are determined to know what is in man at all risks to our tastes and our conven tional standards. The process is disagreeable, but the fact is significant and we shall make a great mis take if in our detestation of the methods of some contemporary writers we refuse to see the meaning of their appearance and activity.
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