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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Gentlemen, - In the volume now in
your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime,
with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of
ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to
acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features
of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the
temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits
before posterity silent, Mr. Forster's appeal echoing down the
ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted
with political crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following
it from cause to consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat
of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding
what was specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile
shape), we proved false to the imaginations; discovered, in a clap,
that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names;
and recoiled from our false deities. But seriousness comes most in
place when we are to speak of our defenders. Whoever be in the
right in this great and confused war of politics; whatever elements
of greed, whatever traits of the bully, dishonour both parties in
this inhuman contest; - your side, your part, is at least pure of
doubt. Yours is the side of the child, of the breeding woman, of
individual pity and public trust. If our society were the mere
kingdom of the devil (as indeed it wears some of his colours) it
yet embraces many precious elements and many innocent persons whom
it is a glory to defend.
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