Excerpt from The Bay-Path: A Tale of New England Colonial Life
Fiction, though much abused by those who write it, and persistently traduced by those who do not comprehend its true mission, has always been a favorite mode of communicating truth, and has, for its support, the highest sanctions of Christianity. Tho Author of tho Christian system spake evermore in parables in the illustration of important practical truth. In fact (let it be reverently uttered), the great principle in human nature which called Him into the world, is identical with that on which the claims and power of legitimate fiction rest. He came to embody abstract truth in human relations, and the naked, incomprehensible idea of God, in the human form. He came to exhibit in human development the true nature of tho divine life, and to demonstrate, in human experience, under the influence of legitimate human motives, the beauty of holiness. It was upon this principle that his wonderful parables were based. The necessity was to exhibit truth in its relations to the feeling, thinking, acting soul; and, in order to meet that necessity at that day, it was requisite that the case should be imagined and the relations created. In the birth of now questions, in the revolution of opinions, and in the shifting aspect of affairs, this great necessity becomes perpetual, and the requisites for its satisfaction remain the same.
With this view of the legitimate aim and high office of fiction, the following pages wore written.
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