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The history of the race is but that of the individual writ large.

The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

George Henry Lewes
Race, Individual
George Henry Lewes (1875). “Problems of Life and Mind”, p.135

Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.

George Henry Lewes
Race, Style, Gains
George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without intelligence we should be brutes - but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.

George Henry Lewes
Character, Eye, Sacrifice
"Rose, Blanche, and Violet". Book by George Henry Lewes, Volume 1, p. 8-9, 1848.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

George Henry Lewes
Art, Views, Doe
George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

George Henry Lewes
Sympathy, Men, Brave
"The Spanish Drama". Book by George Henry Lewes. Chapter 2, 1846.

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