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is a right and a wrong in matters of feeling. And, strangely enough, it is more easy to obtain an assent to this assertion with regard to art and literature than it is with regard to life.

First, then, we will speak of the easier case, and after that, we will apply ourselves for a moment to the harder.

No one denies, to-day, that there is a right and a wrong in the feeling that embodies itself in art. Moral right and wrong, indeed, we do