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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
·
George Gissing
220
But
the
word
is
ill-chosen,
and
indicates
a
misconception.
The
characteristic
of
your
true
hypocrite
is
the
assumption
of
a
virtue
which
not
only
he
has
not,
but
which
he
is
incapable
of
possessing,
and
in
which
he
does
not
believe.
The
hypocrite
may
have,
most
likely
has,
(for
he
is
a
man
of
brains,)
a
conscious
rule
of
life,
but
it
is
never
that
of
the
person
to
whom
his
hypocrisy
is
directed.
Tartufe
incarnates
him
once
for
all.
Tartufe
is
by
conviction
an
atheist
and
a
sensualist;
he
despises
all
who
regard
life
from
the
contrasted
point
of
view.
But
among
Englishmen
such
an
attitude
of
mind
has
always
been
extremely
rare;
to
presume
it
in
our
typical
money-maker
who
has
edifying
sentiments
on
his
lips
is
to
fall
into
a
grotesque
error
of
judgment.
No
doubt
that
error
is
committed
by
the
ordinary
foreign
journalist,
a
man
who
knows
less
than
little
of
English
civilization.
More
enlightened
critics,
if
they
use
the
word
at
all,
do
so
carelessly;
when
speaking
with
more
precision,
they
call
the
English
"pharisaic"--and
come
nearer
the
truth.
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