Capitolo 5
Your ideas transmit", they say many honest critics, "in novels where
can mere boys and girls read them? Because it doesn't formulate them in
serious and controversial books, where wise men will come alone
through them?" The answer is, because wise men are already wise: it
it is the boys and girls of a community of what it sustains the most greater part in need
suggestion and education. Women, are particularly the head,
readers of the fiction; and it is mainly women that one the desires to
awake to interest in deep problems from the help of this vehicle.
Especially if one had to wake up again them to so living interest while
them anchor they are young and plastic, before they has crystallized and
hardened in the conventional marionettes of kind society. Face
they thinks while they is young: does what they feels while they is
sensitive: it is alone then that they will think and they will feel, if never.
I will venture me, indeed, to strengthen my sights on this subject from a
small apologue that I have read in some place, or heard,--or
invented.
A Revolutionary desired to publish an Election Address to Work
Men of Bermondsey. The Rector of the Parish saw him/it to the
printing, and it came to him, very it perturbed. "Because he/she writes him/it in
The English?" he asked. "It will only inflame the minds of the lowered one
orders. Because doesn't allow me of tradurrlo in the Latin of Ciceronian?
It would be comprehensible then to all the men of University; Your logic
you/he/she would duly be weighed and intentionally: and the tanners and
tinkers that are so very sensitive you/they would not be poisoned from
it." "My friend", says the Revolutionary one, "it is the tanners and
tinkers that _I_ wants to get to. My object is, to win this election;
Graduates of university won't help me to win him/it."
The preacher's business it is above all things to preach; but in
orders to preach, he has to reach his/her public before. The public in
this case consists in the great part of women and girls that are more anymore