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Excerpt from English Essays: With an Introduction
HE essay will always be a popular form of literature. Not so profound as the philosophical treatise, it inter ests, entertains, and amuses the reader. Not dull with inconsequential details as history, it is cheery with pleasant banter and raillery. Not rising to the grandeur of epic sublim ity, not soaring in the pure ether of poetic rapture, it has a kindly nod and smile and handshake for the every-day mortal of all the walks of life. It neither preaches nor commands; it suggests. And suggestion is often more effective than ful mination or homily. By its Winsome manner a suggestion deprecates opposition, and friendly advice succeeds where decretals fail. So the power for good of the essayist is enor mous. Without the animosity of partisan pamphleteering, without the formal authority of the pulpit, the essay may teach a thousand lessons of goodness and virtue.
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