The touchstone of character: by Chassay Frédéric Édouard 1816-1880

Author:Chassay, Frédéric Édouard, 1816-1880. [from old catalog] & McM., J. A., [from old catalog] ed
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Character, Christian ethics
Publisher: New York, M. T. Cozans
Published: 1853-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

dreamed of the palm of the Apostolate. Certainly it is a singular hallucination on the part of those minds who have misused everything, even talent, and who have degraded the profession of letters into the most vulgar trade. The romance writers of this age become moralists, and reformers of society ! In truth, the pretension is strange; it is worthy of our times ! Before looking without, this literature would have done well to question itself, to search its own reins, to use a Biblical expression. After having been sceptical, mocking, satiated with everything, avaricious, and little scrupulous, all that was wanting was to become hypocritical, to take up morality as a cloak, and social reform as a last expedient for coining money. This is but one more scandal, added to so many previous ones. He a moralist who has borrowed the language of Rabelais to poison the public with indecent tales and cynical recitals ! He a moralist who makes a jest of concluding on the success and impunity of crime ! A moralist he, who after having made a chaplet of adulterous women, declaies that the fall is obligatory for all the daughters of Eve, and that chastity, the rare exception, is a word which may always be translated into want ot opportunity! Yes, all are moralists, moralists of the same temper, who will return to virtue, if virtue find a ready sale, and succeed better than

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