Literature Is At Once The Cause And

All Good Literature Rests Primarily On Insight.

It Is Not True That A Man Can Believe Or Disbelieve What He Will. But It Is Certain That An Active Desire To Find Any Proposition True Will Unconsciously Tend To That Result By Dismissing Importunate Suggestions Which Run Counter To The Belief, And Welcoming Those Which Favor It. The Psychological Law, That We Only See What Interests Us, And Only Assimilate What Is Adapted To Our Condition, Causes The Mind To Select Its Evidence.

The Prosperity Of A Book Lies In The Minds Of Readers. Public Knowledge And Public Taste Fluctuate; And There Come Times When Works Which Were Once Capable Of Instructing And Delighting Thousands Lose Their Power, And Works, Before Neglected, Emerge Into Renown.

Literature Is At Once The Cause And The Effect Of Social Progress.

Not Only The Individual Experience Slowly Acquired, But The Accumulated Experience Of The Race, Organized In Language, Condensed In Instruments And Axioms, And In What May Be Called The Inherited Intuitions--these Form The Multiple Unity Which Is Expressed In The Abstract Term "experience.