Excerpt from Human Confessions
Every speaker before an audience, every writer for publication - in short, every one who addresses the people generally - has some sort of ideal personage toward whom he aims. I will tell you mine.
My reader, who is before my mind's eye in every utterance I make, is a man who is old enough to have suffered, and still young enough to have faith.
He does not read to acquire information, but to find something that shall stimulate his own thought and feeling. Hence it is a matter of indifference to him whether he agrees with me. He wants me to interest him - not to soothe him.
He values various institutions, such as parties, churches, classes and the like, but he never allows them to interfere with the freedom of his mind.
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