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"Compassion in literature is a substitute for charity, allowing a man to congratulate himself on his humanity ('salt tears have gone bowling down his cheek') without there being any change in his behaviour. Sentimental art rouses 'the sympathies and the indignation of a modern audience' only for them to assume 'that their moral responsibilities are sufficiently fulfilled by the emotions they have been induced to feel'." 🎯 From Electric Spark, by Frances Wilson #Bookstodon #AmReading