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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 19

or do it ill, at least it is our own fault."
Against this ray of genius on the side of conscious moral intention, Carlyle mentions the name of Scott and deplores that "Beyond earning fifteen thousand a year to buy farms with, Scott contemplated no results from his novels... no man of any generation had less value than Scott for the immaterial part of his mission." This is not just, for Scot held his country dear and his purpose was to attempt something for his country which might introduce her to the world in a more favorable lightthan she had been placed and to procure sympathy for the virtue of her natives and indulgences for their foibles. We find the purpose element in saddened but have Charlotte and Emily Bronte in the revolt of "Jane Eyre": in George Eliot, describing the Jew as she
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or do it ill, at least it is our own fault." Against this ray of genius on the side of conscious moral intention, Carlyle mentions the name of Scott and deplores that "Beyond earning fifteen thousand a year to buy farms with, Scott contemplated no results from his novels... no man of any generation had less value than Scott for the immaterial part of his mission." This is not just, for Scot held his country dear and his purpose was to attempt something for his country which might introduce her to the world in a more favorable lightthan she had been placed and to procure sympathy for the virtue of her natives and indulgences for their foibles. We find the purpose element in saddened but have Charlotte and Emily Bronte in the revolt of "Jane Eyre": in George Eliot, describing the Jew as she 16.