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a motive for fiction <del>if truth will stand in its stead?</del> <add>when truth will serve as well?</add><lb/> | a motive for fiction <del>if truth will stand in its stead?</del> <add>when truth will serve as well?</add><lb/> | ||
Cannot the moral be conveyed without the<lb/> | Cannot the moral be conveyed without the<lb/> | ||
mendacity? | mendacity? So I have thought – & so thinking<lb/> | ||
have endeavored to extract wisdom from the machinery<lb/> | have endeavored to extract wisdom from the machinery<lb/> | ||
of able – without giving language to the distinct<lb/> | of able – without giving language to the distinct<lb/> | ||
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and <del>reason</del> sagacity to the irrational</p> | and <del>reason</del> sagacity to the irrational</p> | ||
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The great objection to "fables" is their want of verisimilitude.
They represent nothing in nature. They convey false
impressions – they are clever descriptions but they are
descriptions still. May not the good purpose end be
answered without the pernicious means? Is there
a motive for fiction if truth will stand in its stead? when truth will serve as well?
Cannot the moral be conveyed without the
mendacity? So I have thought – & so thinking
have endeavored to extract wisdom from the machinery
of able – without giving language to the distinct
reason thought to the irrational insensible – motion to the inanimate
and reason sagacity to the irrational
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