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MAURIAC\n\n“This reassuring compromise which enables youto love God without losing sight of Mammon.”  \nAndré Gide to Francois Mauriac.  \n# LIBRARY\n\nCollege of St.FrancisJOLIET,ILL.  \nLONDON  \nSHEED &WARD  \n1946  \nFIRST PUBLISHED 1936BY SHEED AND WARD,LTD.FROM 110/111 FLEET STREETLONDON,E.C.4REPRINTED 1946.THIS BOOK IS PRODUCEDIN COMPLETE CONFORMITY  \nWITH THE AUTHORISED ECONOMY STANDARDSPRINTED IN GREAT BRITAINBY PURNELL AND SONS,LTD.PAULTON(SOMERSET)AND LONDON  \n204  \nM4   \n# GOD AND MAMMON\n\nCHAPTER I  \no write is to hand oneself over.We do not realiseI this when writing our first book,and are thereforeshocked by Claudel's epigram:\"The man of letters—theassassin and the brothel child...”  \nIt is not that a young author doubts that he is thematerial from which his book is moulded,but he believesthat the object of art is to use the particular heaven andearth inside him in order to create new heavens andnew earths whose original form will not be recognisable.He knows that he,the writer,is immanent in his work,and he faces the possibility that observant readers willdiscover him in what he has written;but this does notworry him,as he also knows that only with sympathy andcharity and love can the reader discover the real appear-ance of the author and distinguish it from a precon-ceived idea,just as only mystics can trace an image and ashadow of their God in the visible world.  \nIt is true to say that as soon as an author ceases to becontent with actually depicting reality but wants to givean impression of reality—as soon as he ceases to becontent with communicating facts but wants,rather,toexpress his own feelings about facts—then he no longerlays bare externals to the curious gaze of the reader,but he lays bare,or gives up,himself.  \nThe majority of modern readers want to find the writerhimself in his work.What Baudelaire said in gentle  \n2.0575  \n√  \n√  \nGOD AND MAMMON  \n6  \ninsult to his reader,the contemporary reader returns to theauthor:\"Hypocritical reader,my kindred spirit,mybrother..”It is precisely a kindred spirit and abrother that the reader is looking for in a book so that hemay be instructed as to what his own attitude should betowards life and death.He is looking less for principlesthan for a certain attitude.Principles are found amongthe philosophers,and the reader is usually a man who isignorant of anything outside what he can feel and touch—he is out of his depth in abstractions and he cannotswim;he should learn,yes,but the vocabulary of philo-sophy puts him off,and,more difficult still,the majorityof philosophers depend largely on allusion to things thathave gone before—in fact there is not a philosophicalsystem in existence which does not presuppose a know-ledge of what has gone before.Now,it is impossible forthe average reader to isolate one moment from the streamof human thought,or to begin in the middle of thestream:philosophy is an endless web which has no seamand therefore no facility for 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