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Updated: May 29, 2025
But the business of intelligent criticism is to be in touch with everything. "Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner," as the French ethical maxim has it, may be modified into the true motto of æsthetic criticism, "Tout comprendre, c'est tout justifier." Of course, by "criticism" one does not mean pedagogy, as so many people constantly imagine, nor does justifying everything include bad drawing.
Responsiveness to every feeling, combined with the penetration of every intellectual subterfuge, would end, not in judgment, but in universal absolution. Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner. And in this benevolent neutrality towards the warring errors of human nature all light would go out from art and from life.
Often and often has her tone of mind reminded me of the French saying, "Tout connaître ce serait tout pardonner!" I think that of all the human beings I have ever known or met George Eliot would have made the most admirable, the most perfect father confessor.
'I should still believe there were such. Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner, you know. He brightened at this. 'You are a friend, Wilfrid! What a strange condition mine is! for ever feeling I could do this and that difficult thing, were it to fall in my way, and yet constantly failing in the simplest duties even to that of common politeness. I behaved like a brute to Home.
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