From The Strange Necessity: Essays, by Rebecca WestJANE AUSTEN
"Her determination not to be confused by emotion, and to examine each phenomenon of the day briskly and on its merits, was never a sign of limitation. It was a sign that she lived in the same world as Hume and Gibbon."
From The Long Chain of Criticism
Sounds like the most sensible approach doesn't it?
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