Life — May 6, 1909 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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That a king may easily is not an attack on weaklings, but It is bad taste to call a oman fat; but it is not bad + fat, because a whole of politics and life is founded on at he is dignified, elegant and alert. so even with the outrageous carica- and others against Napoleon— y, a mere microbe to be looked roscope. They were spiteful, they were frantic, they were false, but they great caricatures; they had the soul of satire, because they sought to put down the mighty from is seat. These men drew Napoleon small be- they knew that he was great. They sought mart with pictures of defeat, be- cause had themselves smarted at the sight of his victories. The second principle which is essential to cari- ature is 1 it should appeal to a plain moral re has grown weak precisely be- grown weak, Our caricatures have grown tame in proportion as our specula- tions have grown wild. And this is evident and How can I effectively hold up to ridicule which a cleverer man may be holding oration? How can I caricature some sopher who is always ready to caric: ture himself? This is the second great reason wby we cannot draw such caricatures as we drew in the cighicenth century against George IV. or Napoleon. If we denounced the infidelities of hould find that half the “ advanced '* ing infidelity, If we reproached his bloody laurels, we should find that bloody Jaurels were quite correct wear in the opinion of every clerk who had read Nietz- sche. Satire involves revolt; but revolt involves a fixed ideal. It is only those who are in pos- can afford to be sceptics. And they have been sceptics. People talk, for of Mr. Balfour as an exception; but ory leaders have been like Mr. Bal- Behind Balfour one sees the sneering Salisbury, behind him the sneering Disraeli, and $0 by almost unbroken succession back to all the have felt themselves free from God. 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