Interludes - being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses

Interludes, by Horace Smith
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Title: Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses
Author: Horace Smith
Release Date: November 14, 2005 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1892 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
INTERLUDES being TWO ESSAYS, A STORY, AND SOME VERSES
BY HORACE SMITH London MACMILLAN AND CO
AND NEW YORK 1892
ESSAYS.
I. ON CRITICISM.
p. 1
Criticism is the art of judging. As reasonable persons we are called upon to be constantly pronouncing judgment, and either acting upon such judgment ourselves or inviting others to do so. I do not know how anything can be more important with respect to any matter than the forming a right judgment about it. We pray that we may have “a right judgment in all things.” I am aware that it is an old saying that “people are better than their opinions,” and it is a mercy that it is so, for very many persons not only are full of false opinions upon almost every subject, but even think that it is of no consequence what opinions they hold. Whether a particular ...