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The Laughing Mill, and Other Stories

By Julian Hawthorne

2020-06-28 21:52:58

What is called the human interest in fiction is doubtless more absorbing than any other, but other legitimate sources of interest exist. The marvellous always possesses a fascination, and justly; for while it is neither human nature nor fact, it mini ... Read more
What is called the human interest in fiction is doubtless more absorbing than any other, but other legitimate sources of interest exist. The marvellous always possesses a fascination, and justly; for while it is neither human nature nor fact, it ministers to an æsthetic appetite of the mind which neither fact nor human nature can gratify. Superstition has been well abused, but that was a sad day which should behold the destruction in us of the quality which keeps superstition alive. Fortunately, that day can never come—least of all under a Positivist administration. Less

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File size281.171 KB
Print pages382
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1341545535
Julian Hawthorne was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote poetry, novels, non-fiction, a series of crime novels based on the memoirs of New York's Inspector Byrnes, and edited several collections ...

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