આ પાનું પ્રમાણિત થઈ ગયું છે.
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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
April, 1887 |
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