Lucy Boston, or Woman's Rights and Spiritualism: Illustrating the Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Folio, Fred

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ISBN 10: 1333419414 ISBN 13: 9781333419417

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Páginas: 432 Géneros: 12:YFB:General fiction (Children's / Teenage) Sinopsis: Excerpt from Lucy Boston, or Womans Rights and Spiritualism

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Excerpt from Lucy Boston, or Woman's Rights and Spiritualism: Illustrating the Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century

As to the selection of our subject, no doubt but you will call it fitly chosen. Lucky for the author, if, fortunately, you can say as much of its treatment. Here is a point. Stay a moment. Are you opposed to works of romance? The evidence is at hand, to show that every page embraces more of truth than of fiction. Would, for the credit of human nature, it were shadow instead of substance. Facts, however, can be adduced on the subject matter before us which cast the most romantic romance entirely into the shade.

But are you grave and an enemy to satire? Well, so are we, except in certain cases. There is a time for every thing, a subject for every style, and a style for every subject. Would you discharge a seventy four pounder, loaded to the muzzle, to demolish a worm's nest! So.

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Excerpt from Lucy Boston, or Woman's Rights and Spiritualism: Illustrating the Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century

So thought Job, the pious patriarch, in answering his miserable comforters, and Elisha, the prophet, when he withstood the priests of Baal. Sedate reasoning is the distant cannonade whose spent balls roll harmlessly through the opening ranks of fanaticism, while merited ridicule is the hand to hand assault and on whose lightning-like shafts the hapless victims writhe in death agony.

Or, in less figurative phrase, homilies for the thoughtful, restraints for the headstrong, and a rod for the fool's back.

So much by way of apology. A word further explanatory and di rectory, to prepare the way for the intelligent progress of the reader.

Some portions of the work may be called unnatural. Well, that may be, but not more so, we venture to affirm, than the actual devel opment of human nature in thousands of cases. Who has not seen individuals act very unnatural? If truly represented, therefore, their descriptions must appear as unnatural as themselves. Would you praise an artist for painting a monster with comely proportions, to avoid the charge of producing an unnatural picture of the human form? No matter how great the distortion or deformity, the true painter will give a fac simile without flattery and without fear. How ever the fastidious and those who see themselves reflected may sneer, the artist feels the satisfaction of knowing that he has made a faithful transcript of his subject.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1333419414
• ISBN 13: 9781333419417
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432