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thought. There would, then, be no difficulty in securing tomorrow as
thirty); since all that would be required of each one of them would
his individual taste. In a word, this Free Literature of ours
civic freedom subject only to Common Law, and espouse the cause of
undemocratic, essentially inimical to the will of the majority, who
speculation. Such persons, indeed, merely hold the faith that the
persons, have enough strength and wisdom to know what is and what is
and a Common Law, which deriving from the Conscience of the Country,
inadequate this all is we see from the existence of the Censorship on
Literature, let us now turn to the case.html">case of Art. Every picture hung
public stare of a mixed company. Why, then, have we no Censorship to
blushes to the cheek of the young person? The reason.html">reason cannot be that
managers of Theatres; this would be to make an odious distinction
the first to resent. It is true that Societies of artists and the
they offend against the ordinary standards.html">standards of public decency; but
proprietors of Theatres, in whose case it has been found necessary
once more be noted how much more easily the ordinary standards of
one, than by the clumsy (if more open) process of public protest.
Censorship of Drama, is the reason for the absence of the Censorship
is, that there is none! At any moment we may have to look upon some
dubiously delicate in theme as that censured play "The Cenci," by one
the censured "Ghosts," by one Ibsen. Let us protest against this
of a single person not selected for any pretentiously artistic
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