Word: unreadably
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...sometimes charged with "pandering to a low taste for jokes"; the man who would satirize prevalent follies hears his piece called sick unless he has proved himself equal to the task. Another who would enforce his opinions, on consulting his friend, finds that his essay has been unread. Such rebuffs are naturally disheartening; but after the first shock is over the truth is recognized, and the mistakes of the past are avoided. Not alone to the writer is the freedom of criticism allowed here valuable, to the reader also such an exercise is beneficial. Even those who never write demand...