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Lafcadio Hearn

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true – it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one’s literary education very incomplete.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

– Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man – that is to say, the strongest and cleverest – is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

– Lafcadio Hearn

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