પૃષ્ઠ:Saraswati Chandra Part 1.pdf/૮

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PREFACE


The conviction has also grown upon him that reality in flesh and blood under the guise of fiction can supply the ordinary reader with subtler moulds and finer casts for the formation of his inner self than abstract discussions and that this is especially so with a people who must be made, and not simply left, to read.

It remains to note that by inducing reality under fiction it is not meant to convey any personal allusion whatever in any part or even a line, of the book. The acutalities of life or locality are referred to only and strictly so far as they belong to any of the varied conditions of life amongst, our people. And even these are on occasions ideal. The ideal and the actual are in some places inseparable


Bombay
April, 1887
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