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Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Defects
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Aesthetic
Nearly
Related
Criticism
Supposed
Comparative

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