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Trollope is thought to have given the finishing stroke to the prejudice against novel- reading as an immoral practice — a prejudice against which Walter Scott had made the first thrust with Waverly. But he was not willing that fiction should be just tolerated. He said, "At present there exists a feeling that novels at their best are but innocent. They are read as men eat pastry after dinner, not without some inward conviction that the taste is vain, if not vicious. It is neither vain nor viciou...s. " Again: ''Prejudice against the reading of novels is overcome, but prejudice still exists in reference to the appreciation in which they are professed to be held, and robs them of that high character which they may claim to have earned by their grace, honesty and good teaching. " So far from being merely innocent he looked upon the novel as a school for manners and morals. He realized the all but universal hearing that might be obtained. He said, "If I can teach politicians that they can 932 Methodist Review [ITovember do their business better by truth than by falsehood I do a great service, but it is done to a limited number of persons.
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