Heart and Science : a story of the present time

y of buyers and borrowers of novels; and you judge of works of fiction by certain inbred prefer

tells no story, or that blunders perpetually in trying to tell a story - a novel so entirely devoid of all sense of the dramatic side of human life, that not even a theatrical thief can find an

k; and I have never succeeded in keeping an equal balance. In the present story you will find the s

of work - that I may have little time to lose. Without waiting for future opportunities, I have kept yo

cters with a vigour and breadth of treatment, derived from the nearest and truest view that I could get of the one model, Nature. Whether I shall at once succeed in adding to the circle of your friends in the world of fiction - or whether you will h

came to think of writing this book. The question may be readily answered in better words than mine. My book has

k of our English nation, if they have a good thing

to be derived from the advancement of Science; for every study of that nature tend

as for its first and its last step - Humility." (Le

the book, let me conclude by telling

e purposely left in ignorance of the hideous secrets of Vivisection. The outside of the laboratory is a necessary object in my landscape - but I never once open the door and invite you to look in. I trace, in one of my characters, the result of the habitual practice of cruelty (no matter under what pretence) in fatally deteriorating the nature of

nt withdraws, and lea