himself.
          But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of 
     the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal 
     drama, as may be the lot of any other man; young 
     spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention, 
     and hope, by observing his behavior and success, to 
     regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged 
     in the like part.
          For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps 
     be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed 
     morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue 
     with more efficacy than axioms and definitions.

     Quite parallel with this extension of the book page into 
the form of a talking picture of ordinary life, was what Leo 
Lowenthal mentions in Popular Culture and Society  (p. 75) as