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! would suggest TO such doubters certain obvious
distinctions ] would remind them OF certain SIM
pie truths.
Caueutianalitv is not morality Selfrghteous-
ness is not religion. To attack the first Is not to
ass1il the last. To pluck the mask from the face
Of the Pharisee, Is not TO hit an impious hand
tG the Crown of ThOUs
These things and deeds are Numerically OPP
poaed they distinct as Is vice from vir-
tue Men too often C0niound them; they should
not be confouHded; appearances should not he
mistaken for truth, narrow human doctrines that
only tend 10 elate and magnify few. should not
be substituted for the world-rcdpeming creed OF
Christ. There isl repeat it-a difference; and it
is good, and not bad, action to mark broadly
and clearly the line OF SEPARATION between them.
The world may not like 10 see these ideas dis
severed. for II has been accustomed to blend
them; finding il convenient TO make external
show pass for sterling vortl-t0 let wlitcwaslrd
walls vouCh for clean shrines. lt may hate hlm
who darcs to scrutinize and expose to erase the
gliding, and show base metal under ito penc-
tTate the sepulcnIe and reveal charucl relics, but
hate rs il viii, il IS indebted TO him.
Ahab did not like Micaiah. because he never
pTUVhesied good concerning him. but evil; prnbs-
hly me liked tire sycophaut son Of Chcna5nah bet
ter; yet might Ahab have escaped q bloody death
had he bat stopped his ears TO fatteTy and open
ed them 10 faithful counsel.
There Is man in oT own days whose words
not framed 10 tickle delicate ears; who.
10 my thinking, comes before the great ones
oi society, much as the son Of Iniah came be-
fore the throned kings Of Judah and Israel; ;
and who speaks truth as deep, with power rs
prophet-iike and as vital-a mien dauntlcss and
as daring. Is the satinst Of VANITY Fair ad
mired in high placesf ] cannot tell; but ] think
If some Of those amongst whom he lTuTs the Greek
FIRE Of his sarcasm. and over whom he flashes
the levin-brand of his denunciation were To
take hts warnings in time-they OF their seed
might yet escape fatal Ramojh-Gil
Why have ] alluded to this man2 / have alluded
10 him, Reader. because ] think ] see in him an
intellect profounder and more unique than his
contemporaries have yet recognized; because ! re-
gard him as the first social reEenerator OF the
day-as the very master OF that working corps
who would restore to rectitude the warped system
of things; because ! think no commentator on his
writings has yet found the comparison that suits
him, the terms which rightly characterize his
talent. They say he is like Fielding; they talk Of
ms wit humor comic powers. He resembles
! Fielding as an eagle does a vulture; Fielding
could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never
does His Wit is bright his humor attractive. but
both bear the relation TO his serious genius
that the mere lambent sheet-lghtning playing
under the edge Of the summer cloud, does to the
electric death-spark hid in its womb. Finally, |
| have alluded 10 Mr.. Thackeray. because 10 him
II he win accept the tribute of total stranger
! have dedicated this second edition Of "Jane
| Eyre
(New York: Harper & Bros)