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to be writing a Novel. The latter form of composition is
presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not merely
to the possible, but to the probable and ordinary course
of man’s experience. The former— while, as a work of
art, it must rigidly subject itself to laws, and while it
sins unpardonably, so far as it may swerve aside from
the truth of the human heart— has fairly a right to
present that truth under the circumstances, to a great
extent, of the writer’s own choosing or creation. If he
think fit, also, he may so manage his atmospherical
medium as to bring out or mellow the lights and deepen
and enrich the shadows of the picture. He will be wise,
no doubt, to make a very moderate use of the privi­
leges here stated, and, especially, to mingle the Mar­
velous rather as a slight, delicate, and evanescent fla­
vor, than as any portion of the actual substance of the
dish offered to the public. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
2. And so the reliance on property, including the reliance
on governments which protect it, is the want of self-
reliance. Men have looked away from themselves and
at things so long that they have come to esteem the
religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of prop­
erty, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they
feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their
esteem of each other by what each has. and not by whal
each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his
property, out of new respect for his nature. Especially
he hates what he has if he sees that it is accidental—
came to him by inheritance, or gift, or crime: then hi
feels that it is not having; it does not belong to him, has
no root in him and merely lies there because no revolu
tion or no robber takes it away. But that w hich a man is
does always by necessity acquire: and uhat the man
acquires, is living property, which does not wait the
beck of rulers, or mobs, or revolutions, or fire, or storm
or bankruptcies, but perpetually renew s itself wherevei

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