I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendenbsp;of subsp;books as “Jane Eyre:” in who eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; who ears detebsp;in eabsp;protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth.
I would suggest to subsp;doubters certain obvious distins; I would remind them of certain simple truths.
ventionality is not morality.
Self-righteousness is not religion.
To attabsp;the first is not to assail the last.
To plubsp;the mask from the fabsp;of the Pharie, is not to lift an impious hand to the of Thorns.
The things and deeds are diametrically oppod: they are as distinbsp;as is vibsp;from virtue.
Men too often found them: they should not be founded: appearanbsp;should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human does, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ.
There is—I repeat it—a differenbsp;and it is a good, and not a bad a to mark broadly and clearly the line of paration between them.
I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendenbsp;of subsp;books as “Jane Eyre:” in who eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; who ears detebsp;in eabsp;protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth.
I would suggest to subsp;doubters certain obvious distins; I would remind them of certain simple truths.
ventionality is not morality.
Self-righteousness is not religion.