Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.
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