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“ There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears : who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as the son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel ”

“ I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as 'Jane Eyre': in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry that parent of crime an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions ; I would remind them of certain simple truths.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ”

“ Men too often con- found them : they should not be confounded : appearance should not be mistaken for truth ; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. ”