Meditations in Motley a Bundle of Papers Imbued With the Sobriety of Midnight
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But there was a certain excitement (at least it seems so to us looking back into history) about the profession of letters, as about the stage, when it was a disgraceful outlawry, which is lacking in these days when it is a respectable, but poor and con temptible trade. There is not much to be said on moral grounds for the old system of patronage in literature, but one should hesitate before condemning it altogether. The present system is theoretically better, but a thousand and one deterioratin...g influ ences in the machinery, with which thought has been clogged since the inven tion of printing, and the practical abandon ment of real schools, cause one to almost doubt whether we have made any real prog ress. The steam press has multiplied all the books that are mere printed matter, and this is such a profitable business that publishers do not care to venture the cost of genuine thought; and so in a world 108 MEDITATIONS IN MOTLEY. full of books, literature goes a-begging in the market-place.
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