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The Dynamiter
Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author), Stevenson, R. L. (Author), 1stworld Library (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1421808625     ISBN-13: 9781421808628
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
OUR PRICE: $27.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 970(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (1.07 lbs) 276 pages
Features: Dust Cover
 
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Gentlemen, - In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity silent, Mr. Forster's appeal echoing down the ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what was specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape), we proved false to the imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names; and recoiled from our false deities. But seriousness comes most in place when we are to speak of our defenders. Whoever be in the right in this great and confused war of politics; whatever elements of greed, whatever traits of the bully, dishonour both parties in this inhuman contest; - your side, your part, is at least pure of doubt. Yours is the side of the child, of the breeding woman, of individual pity and public trust. If our society were the mere kingdom of the devil (as indeed it wears some of his colours) it yet embraces many precious elements and many innocent persons whom it is a glory to defend.
 
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