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Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter.  \nPreface  \nAprefaessarcye, Itogathveenfiorstne: dhiiionsecof ‘JondaendeitEyiorned’ebeimanngdusnanfeecwwords both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.  \nMy thanks are due in three quarters.  \nTo the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.  \nTo the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.  \nTo my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended Author.  \nThe Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me, and I must thank them in vague terms; but my Publishers are definite: so are certain generous critics who have encouraged me as only large-hearted and high-minded men know how to encourage a struggling stranger; to them, i.e., to my Publishers and the select Reviewers, I say cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart.  \nHaving thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as ‘Jane Eyre:’ in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry—  \n􀀚 Jane Eyre  \nthat parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.  \nConventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness isnot religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. Topluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift animpious hand to the Crown of Thorns.  \nThese things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. Thereis—I repeat it—a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.  \nThe world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make external show pass for sterling worth—to let whitewashed walls vouch for clean shrines. It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose—to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it—to penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it will, it is indebted to him.  \nAhab did not like Micaiah, because he never prophesied good concerning him, but evil; probably he liked the sycophant son of Chenaannah better; yet might Ahab have escaped a bloody death, had he but stopped his ears to flattery, and opened them to faithful counsel.  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 􀀖  \nThere is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as the son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks truth as deep, with a power as prophet-like and as vital—a mien as dauntless and as daring. Is the satirist of ‘Vanity Fair’ admired in high places? I cannot tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom hehurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time—they or their seed might yet escape a fatal Rimoth-Gilead.  \nWhy have I alluded to this man? I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the da","cbCaikPxJR9XIlZy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikPxJR9XIlZy","pdf",2280184,691,"English","# Preface\n## Note to the Third Edition\n# Chapter I","[{\"question\":\"What does the Preface of Jane Eyre address?\",\"answer\":\"It thanks the public, press, and publishers, then responds to critics who doubt the novel’s moral “tendency,” arguing for clear distinctions between appearance and truth.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author explain her claim to being a novelist?\",\"answer\":\"In the “Note to the Third Edition,” she states her claim rests on Jane Eyre alone and aims to correct misattributed authorship of other fiction.\"},{\"question\":\"What begins Chapter I in the provided text?\",\"answer\":\"Chapter I opens by describing a day with no possibility of taking a walk, due to cold winter weather, rain, and heavy clouds.\"}]","Jane Eyre - Preface - Chapter I | PDF",1064]