before our eyes, such as may happen to our friend or to ourselves; and the perfection of it is to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner and to make them appear so probable as to deceive us into a persuasion (at least while we are reading) that all is real, until we are affected by the joys or distresses of the persons in the story as if they were our own."
The language of the English Bible has been from time to time revised and 'modernized' so that every one may understand it without the help of notes and keys.
Even the men of learning are anxious 'to bring philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea tables and coffee-houses.' And men of science, most of whom were poor and descended from the common people, communicated their discoveries in their own familiar language. To 'vulgarize' science and to coax the working man and the man in the street to love it is now recognized as part of the National Education Scheme.
In a democracy every institution tends to become 'popular' as a matter of course: the exclusive spirit of castes and classes is suppressed. Popular government and popular education go together
