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The Stranger A Drama, in Five Acts - August Von Kotzebue

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009-12-30
主題	Literary Criticism / General
ISBN	14505002429781450500241
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xZAjQwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋A passage from the book... There seems to be required by a number of well meaning persons of the present day a degree of moral perfection in a play, which few literary works attain; and in which sermons, and other holy productions, are at times deficient, though written with the purest intention.To criticise any book, besides the present drama, was certainly not a premeditated design in writing this little essay; but in support of the position-that every literary work, however guided by truth, may occasionally swerve into error, it may here be stated that the meek spirit of christianity can seldom be traced in any of those pious writings where our ancient religion, the church of Rome, and its clergy, are the subjects: and that political writers, in the time of war, laudably impelled, will slander public enemies into brutes, that the nation may hate them without offence to brotherly love.Articles of sacred faith are often so piously, yet so ignorantly expounded in what are termed systems of education and instruction-that doubts are created, where all was before secure, and infidelity sown, where it was meant to be extirpated.