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To hear)[about our latest releases subscribe to the](about our latest releases subscribe to the Planet PDF Newsletter.)[ ](about our latest releases subscribe to the Planet PDF Newsletter.)[Planet PDF Newsletter](about our latest releases subscribe to the Planet PDF Newsletter.)[.](about our latest releases subscribe to the Planet PDF Newsletter.)  \nJane Eyre  \nPreface  \nA preface to the first edition of ‘Jane Eyre’ being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words 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 highminded 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.  \neBook brought to you by  \nCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.  \nJane Eyre  \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—that 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 an impious 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. There is—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.  \nJane Eyre  \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 white-washed walls vouch for clean shrines. It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose—torase 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.  \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? 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