So far as it was imperfect-and great and beautiful as it was, I think it had its imperfections-it was marred by the intense ethicism that pervaded the New England mind for two hundred years, and that still characterizes it.
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William Dean Howells
I do not forget the fictions of Doctor Holmes, or the vivid inventions of Doctor Hale, but I do not call them novels; and I do not forget the exquisitely realistic art of Miss Jewett or Miss Wilkins, which is free from the ethicism of the great New England group, but which has hardly the novelists's scope.
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