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JANE EYRE
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Charlotte BrontΓ« _ILLUSTRATED BY F. H.
ν΄μ€ 보기 βTO
W. M. THACKERAY, ESQ. , This Work
IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY
THE AUTHOR PREFACE A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave
none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment
and miscellaneous remark.
ν΄μ€ 보기 βMy thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale
with few pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an
obscure aspirant.
ν΄μ€ 보기 βTo my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical
sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended
Author. The Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me, and I
must thank them in vague terms; but my Publishers are definite: so are
certain generous critics who have encouraged me as only large-hearted
and high-minded men know how to encourage a struggling stranger; to
them, _i. e. _, to my Publishers and the select Reviewers, I say
cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart.
ν΄μ€ 보기 βHaving thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved
me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not,
therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or carping few who
doubt the tendency of such books as "Jane Eyre:" in whose eyes whatever
is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against
bigotryβthat parent of crimeβan insult to piety, that regent of God on
earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I
would remind them of certain simple truths.
ν΄μ€ 보기 βConventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To
attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the
face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of
Thorns.
ν΄μ€ 보기 βThese things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct
as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be
confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human
doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be
substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There isβI repeat
itβa difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly
and clearly the line of separation between them.
ν΄μ€ 보기 βThe world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been
accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show
pass for sterling worthβto let white-washed walls vouch for clean
shrines. It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and exposeβto rase the
gilding, and show base metal under itβto penetrate the sepulchre, and
reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.
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