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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 20

believed him to be in reality, doing justice to stern righteousness of a Dinah Morris, or telling how Savanarola became a protestant in spite of himself. George Eliot held her gifts so earnestly as a minister that she was was never tired of enforcing her lesson. "Great facts," says she, "have struggled to find a voice through me and have only been able to spread brokenly." George Meredith is a novelist of the philosophic school and is one of the boldest and ablest of his class in our day and anyone who follows him from "The Shaving of Shagpat" and "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel" down to "Diana of the Crossways" and "One of Our Conquerors" cannot fail to observe the constant growth in importance of the underlying purpose.
What does all this mean? Is a book great because its moral purpose is sound, or is all
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believed him to be in reality, doing justice to stern righteousness of a Dinah Morris, or telling how Savanarola became a protestant in spite of himself. George Eliot held her gifts so earnestly as a minister that she was was never tired of enforcing her lesson. "Great facts," says she, "have struggled to find a voice through me and have only been able to spread brokenly." George Meredith is a novelist of the philosophic school and is one of the boldest and ablest of his class in our day and anyone who follows him from "The Shaving of Shagpat" and "The Ordeal of Richard Feverel" down to "Diana of the Crossways" and "One of Our Conquerors" cannot fail to observe the constant growth in importance of the underlying purpose. What does all this mean? Is a book great because its moral purpose is sound, or is all 17.