Currer Bell (Miss. C. Bronte) on Conventionality …
I picked up an old copy of Jane Eyre last night as I was waiting for Fred to get home. (He’s been out until 10:30 or 11:00 every night this week preparing materials for my women’s event next week. Boy does he work hard to serve!)
In the Preface, M. Currer (AKA Charlotte Bronte) makes this astute observation:
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. The pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.”
Ahhhhhhh … there’s a reason they call ’em the classics, eh?
If only I could find my old high school A.P. English teacher, Dr. Charmian Poe, and let her know the good news that what she wrote in her note to me at graduation is (slowly! I’m SO dull!) coming true … I am reading “the classics” for the pure joy of them all.
Grace abounds!