The Mind of the Spectator Under the Editorship of Addison and Steele (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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IT is restful and Wholesome for us of this hurrying age occasionally to contemplate a quieter world. And there is no pleasanter way of doing so than through the eyes of the Spectator. Those were the days when even journalism was leisurely. It was Addison's earnest ambition to teach as well as to divert, to clear away encumbering hatreds and follies, and to build up public opinion on foundations of sober judgment and clear sense of right and wrong. There are some whose eagerness in this perennial task makes them didactic, pompous, impatient. But Addison is among those who can wait. He would rather wear down than tear down ignorance, passion and prejudice. He will take time to look well into men's minds before he takes side against them. He trusts men to see their own faces in the honest mirror he holds up to them, and he would rather set them laughing at themselves than condemning each other. So he gives them these homoeopathic doses of good sense, good taste and good-humoured morality. And when.

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