Elsie Venner
Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner I have nothing of importance to add to the two preceding Prefaces. The continued call...
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Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1809-1894
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Language: English
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Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner

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Elsie Venner

Elsie Venner

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Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell,1809-1894
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Elsie Venner

I have nothing of importance to add to the two preceding Prefaces. The continued call for this story, which was not written for popularity, but with a very serious purpose, has somewhat surprised and, I need not add, gratified me. I can only restate the motive idea of the tale in a little different language. Believing, as I do, that our prevailing theologies are founded upon an utterly false view of the relation of man to his Creator, I attempted to illustrate the doctrine of inherited moral responsibility for other people's misbehavior. I tried to make out a case for my poor Elsie, whom the most hardened theologian would find it hard to blame for her inherited ophidian tastes and tendencies. How, then, is he to blame mankind for inheriting sinfulness from their first parents? May not the serpent have bitten Eve before the birth of Cain, her first-born? That would have made an excuse for Cain's children, as Elsie's ante-natal misfortune made an excuse for her. But what difference does it make in the child's responsibility whether his inherited tendencies come from a snake-bite or some other source which he knew nothing about and could not have prevented from acting? All this is plain enough, and the only use of the story is to bring the dogma of inherited guilt and its consequences into a clearer point of view. But, after all, the tale must have proved readable as a story to account for the large number of editions which it has reached. Some readers have been curious about the locality the writer was thought to have in view. No particular place was intended. Some of the characters may have been thought to have been drawn from life; but the personages mentioned are mostly composites, like Mr. Galton's compound photographic likenesses, and are not calculated to provoke scandal or suits for libel. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 2696
Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Release Date: Sep 28, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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