Shakespeare's Bones
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Dust and asheshave no intelligence to give, whether beauty, genius, or virtue, informed the animated clay. A tooth of Homer or Milton will not bedistinguished from one of a common mortal; nor a bone of Alexanderacquaint us with more of his character than one of Bucephalus. Though the dead be unconcerned, the living are neither benefited norimproved: decency is violated, and a kind of instinctive sympathyinfringed, which, though it ought not to overpower reason, ought notwithout it, and to no pu...rpose, to be superseded. " Notwithstandingthe right feeling shewn in this passage, it is quite sufficient tocondemn Capel Lofft as a Philister. Let us for a moment examinesome of these very eloquent assertions. Agreeing as I cordially dowith his wish, that neither superstition, affectation, whatever thatmay mean, idle curiosity, or avarice, were the motives which actuatethose who molest the relics of the dead, I cannot allow that neitherdust and ashes, bones, nor teeth, have any intelligence to give us;nor yet that by the reverential scrutiny of those relics the livingcan be neither benefited nor improved.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Dust and asheshave no intelligence to give, whether beauty, genius, or virtue, informed the animated clay. A tooth of Homer or Milton will not bedistinguished from one of a common mortal; nor a bone of Alexanderacquaint us with more of his character than one of Bucephalus. Though the dead be unconcerned, the living are neither benefited norimproved: decency is violated, and a kind of instinctive sympathyinfringed, which, though it ought not to overpower reason, ought notwithout it, and to no pu...rpose, to be superseded. " Notwithstandingthe right feeling shewn in this passage, it is quite sufficient tocondemn Capel Lofft as a Philister. Let us for a moment examinesome of these very eloquent assertions. Agreeing as I cordially dowith his wish, that neither superstition, affectation, whatever thatmay mean, idle curiosity, or avarice, were the motives which actuatethose who molest the relics of the dead, I cannot allow that neitherdust and ashes, bones, nor teeth, have any intelligence to give us;nor yet that by the reverential scrutiny of those relics the livingcan be neither benefited nor improved.
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