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Updated: May 20, 2025
The purpose of fiction is to embody certain truths of human life in a series of imagined facts. The importance of this purpose is scarcely ever appreciated by the casual careless reader of the novels of a season. Although it is commonly believed that such a reader overestimates the weight of works of fiction, the opposite is true he underestimates it.
Sometimes he measures his efforts by the amount of money he thinks he may ultimately earn, be it great or small. Sometimes he overestimates himself, or what is equally bad, underestimates himself.
There is always that danger, a danger that Frontenac underestimates because he has not grasped the possibilities that we have here. If both these men should prove to be spies, and in collusion Well, they are brave men, and crafty; it will be the greater pleasure to outwit them.
I see God indubitably present in these excitements, and I see personalities I could easily have misjudged as too base or too dense for spiritual understandings, lit by the manifest reflection of divinity. One may be led into the absurdest underestimates of religious possibilities if one estimates people only coldly and in the light of everyday life.
An interesting paragraph on music recognizes its value in avoiding fatigue, but underestimates, perhaps, the desirability of including music for use at later years as well as for infant classes. The syllabus contains admirably illustrated exercises in detail.
The British agent McKee was with them; and so was Simon Girty, the "white renegade," and another partisan leader, Elliott. McKee says there were 1300 Indians, and omits all allusion to Caldwell's rangers. He always underestimates the Indian numbers and loss. In the battle one of Caldwell's rangers, Antoine Lasselle, was captured.
To the cosmic philosopher what does it matter whether this or that human male mates with this or that human female, or whether the mating endures beyond the passionate moment? Viewing such matters thus Mr. Dreiser constantly underestimates the forces which in civil society actually do restrain the expansive moods of sex. At least he chooses to represent love almost always in its vagrant hours.
"Blague, my friend, sheer blague. You know you relish a good dinner of your own ordering far more than anybody's appreciation, even mine." The waiters had retired, leaving them alone in a momentary oasis of public isolation. "Mademoiselle," said Lanyard in more formal vein, "I am sure, underestimates my capacity for appreciation.
Inwardly he cursed himself for the worst kind of a fool; the fool who underestimates the caliber of his opponent. "Would you say," continued the smooth voice of the other, "that these might be mistaken for your work?" "Nobody would know the difference. It's robbery of the rankest kind. But it's infernally clever." "I'm not going to quarrel with you over a definition, Mr. Banneker," said Marrineal.
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