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IBSEN OCH ÄKTENSKAPSFRÅGAN.
Let this opportunity be conceded to me of acknowledging that I have, what a Scotch
philosopher characteristically terms, »a passion for reforming the world» — — —. But it is a
mistake to suppose that I dedicate my poetical compositions solely to the direct enforcement of
reform, or that I consider the min any degree as containing a reasoned system on the theory
of human life. Didactic poetry is my abhorrence —–––––––. My purpose has hitherto been simply
to familiarize the highly refined imagination of the more select classes of poetical reader’s with
beautiful idealisms of moral excellence; aware that until the mind can love, and admire, and
trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the
highway of life which the unconscious possenger tramples into dust, although they would bear the
harvest of his happiness.
(Ur Shelleys företal till »Prometheus Unbound».)
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