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But analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect. He may believe in a moral sense, like Shaftes- bury^ ; he may refer all human actions to self-interest, like Helvetius- ; or he may never think about the matter at all. His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry, properly so called, than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lachrymal glands, or the circulation of the blood, will affect the tears of his Niobe^, or th...e blushes of his Aurora'*. If Shakespeare had written a book on the motives of human actions, it is by no means certain that it would have been a good one. It is extremely improbable that it would have contained half so much able reasoning on the subject as is to be found in the Fable of the Bees^. But could Mande- ville have created an lago® ? Well as he knew how to resolve characters into their elements, would he have been able to combine those elements in such a manner as to make up a man, a real, living, individual man ?
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