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Excerpt from Devil-Puzzlers, and Other Studies
Some of these pieces, with others', I tried in vain to get printed in book form a good (or bad) number of years ago and I have now been read ing over the preface which I wrote then. It ap pears to me smgularly unpleasant in choice of words and in tone of thought. Judging from this comparison of two periods or ages, it would seem that continued literary work leads towards a lower estimate of one's abilities, and of the justice and importance of one's own views and thoughts, and towards the use of shorter words and senten ces, and more direct constructions. So that if Thomas Carlyle could live and write for a mod erate geologic period (say years) he might perhaps settle down to candid good sense in plain English.
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