Excerpt from Kings of Capital and Knights of Labor Fiction must be employed as an agent in the emancipation of our American Society. Through it alone can we reach the people. Our Saviour 'himself gives example of its use for the loftiest Spiritual ends. Prophet and apostle, by symbol and allegory, convinced the reason, persuaded the will, and aroused the conscience. Who can estimate the blessing of those mar velous creations of Bunyan, the Baptist tinker, which have shed light on the path of so many pilgrims to the Celestial City Nor does the humor detract from the power and solemnity of the lesson. Defoe, in his story of Robinson Crusoe, has given fresh charm to childhood and a purer and brighter halo to home. Dickens and Thackeray have not only amused, but improved mankind. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an agency of genius in rend ing the chains from millions of slaves, proving itself thus one of the regenerators of a nation. Smile and tear lie close to gether in man, and hence in those immortal works the comic and the tragic muse have been both employed for the most beneficent moral purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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