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The Ethical Tendency of the English Novel by Helen M. Harney, 1897

The Ethical Tendency of the English Novel by Helen M. Harney, 1897, Page 10

Of 'the intersect realism of presentations with the highest idealism of conception."
All art has a purpose, which may be broadly defined as the presentation of truth in the form of beauty. Art is great and enduring in direct proportion to the universality of the truth it expresses and the grace of the form it chooses. If the truth transcends time, and the form follows deep immutable instincts of harmony, the art will endure through all changes of custom and accidents of opinion; we shall have Homer forever singing the beauty of the physical life, the Gothic cathedrals forever praying upward, Dante forever disclosing the pilgrimage of the soul, Shakespeare forever revealing the relations and contrasts of character and circumstance.
With the novelist as an artist, the purpose is to present his motif as honestly as he
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Of 'the intersect realism of presentations with the highest idealism of conception." All art has a purpose, which may be broadly defined as the presentation of truth in the form of beauty. Art is great and enduring in direct proportion to the universality of the truth it expresses and the grace of the form it chooses. If the truth transcends time, and the form follows deep immutable instincts of harmony, the art will endure through all changes of custom and accidents of opinion; we shall have Homer forever singing the beauty of the physical life, the Gothic cathedrals forever praying upward, Dante forever disclosing the pilgrimage of the soul, Shakespeare forever revealing the relations and contrasts of character and circumstance. With the novelist as an artist, the purpose is to present his motif as honestly as he 7.