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Excerpt from The Guilty Man: Le Coupable
Were the heart the organ of speech we should have an universal language. Even as it' is, its beats mark the rhythm Of all emotional literature. An author who plays upon the heart-strings, purging the human passions, love and pity and terror, by arousing them and satisfying or allaying them, strengthening the moral fibre by giving it exercise, uplifting the imagination to a broad vision of hu manity, and directing the will toward action in behalf of the oppressed, will not fail Of devotees in other nations than his own. SO it was with Charles Dickens, whose books have been translated into every civilized language, and who has been an inspiration to foreign authors no less than to those of the anglo-saxon world. In France, in particular, Dickens has found disciples among literary ar tists of equal rank with himself, Alphonse Daudet and Francois Coppée showing in certain of their best works the direct in¿uence of the novelist whom Taine charac terized as,the great English painter and poet of humanity.
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