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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