The Laughing Mill, and Other Stories
The Laughing Mill, and Other Stories
By Julian Hawthorne
28 Jun, 2020
What is called the human interest in fiction is doubtless more absorbing than any other, but other legitimate sources of interest exist. The marvellous always possesses a fascination, and justly; for while it is neither human nature nor fact, it mini
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What is called the human interest in fiction is doubtless more absorbing than any other, but other legitimate sources of interest exist. The marvellous always possesses a fascination, and justly; for while it is neither human nature nor fact, it ministers to an æsthetic appetite of the mind which neither fact nor human nature can gratify. Superstition has been well abused, but that was a sad day which should behold the destruction in us of the quality which keeps superstition alive. Fortunately, that day can never come—least of all under a Positivist administration. Less