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VII.
RIGHT AND WRONG IN FEELING.[1]
There is a right and a wrong in matters of
feeling. And, strangely enough, it is more
easy to obtain an assent to this assertion with
regard to art and literature than it is with
regard to life.
First, then, we will speak of the easier case, and after that, we will apply ourselves for a moment to the harder.
No one denies, to-day, that there is a right and a wrong in the feeling that embodies itself in art. Moral right and wrong, indeed, we do
- ↑ Delivered at Prince’s Hall, for the London Ethical Society.
