PERSPECTIVE AND FICTION
" Plain people have to protest against the treatment meted out by popular writers—essayists and novelists—of to-day. We are common, but scarcely so common and unclean as these would make us out to be," says the Rev. D. Macdonald, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.
'" You can buy just now for a very small sum quite a good microscope. If you put a drop of not very fresh water or a morsel of very ripe cheese within and turn the glass to the light you will be horrified at the things you see. lam not, of course, suggesting that the microscope is lying, but it is exaggerating. The creatuires are there, and they may be harmful enough; but they are not so big and terrible. Now these writers of whom I speak use some such form of microscope when they study humanity. They put a bit of life—a very tiny piece and the least attractive—under their cheap microscope, and bid us lciok and shudder—or admire. It is not the whole of life, and it shows things out of all proportion."
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3504, 11 August 1934, Page 9
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