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The text is Essay 4, titled Macaulay, from Vol. I of Critical Miscellanies by John Morley. The contents list names, among others, Macaulay’s vast popularity, Dislike of analysis, Compared with Carlyle and Compared with Burke. The text says it is quite certain that Macaulay comes in the very front rank in the mind of the ordinary bookbuyer of our day.
The text says a recent traveller in Australia informs us that the three books he found on every squatter’s shelf were Shakespeare, the Bible, and Macaulay’s Essays. The text says Macaulay in the course of his varied writings discusses all sorts of ethical and other matters, and is not simply a chronicler of party and intrigue, of dynasties and campaigns. The text asks what is a decorous term for a description of the doctrine of Lucretius’s great poem, thrown in parenthetically, as the silliest and meanest system of natural and moral philosophy.
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- John Morley
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