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Title: Essays on Censorship and Art
Author: John Galsworthy
Release Date: October 27, 2006 [EBook #2901]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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ESSAYS ON CENSORSHIP AND ART
By John Galsworthy
-Je vous dirai que l’exces est toujours un mal.-
--ANATOLE FRANCE
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
ABOUT CENSORSHIP
VAGUE THOUGHTS ON ART
ABOUT CENSORSHIP
Since, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free
institutions, that the great majority of our fellow-countrymen consider
the only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the Censorship of
Plays, a bulwark for the preservation of their comfort and sensibility
against the spiritual researches and speculations of bolder and too
active spirits--it has become time to consider whether we should not
seriously extend a principle, so grateful to the majority, to all our
institutions.
For no one can deny that in practice the Censorship of Drama works with a
smooth swiftness--a lack of delay and friction unexampled in any public
office.
No troublesome publicity and tedious postponement for the
purpose of appeal mar its efficiency.
It is neither hampered by the Law
nor by the slow process of popular election.
Welcomed by the
overwhelming majority of the public; objected to only by such persons as
suffer from it, and a negligible faction, who, wedded pedantically to
liberty of the subject, are resentful of summary powers vested in a
single person responsible only to his own ’conscience’--it is amazingly,
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triumphantly, successful.
Why, t...