This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...kind. A narrative, a description, an argument, a play, I find, may any and all of them be planned in very much the same way. In considering these chapters, then, --just as in planning a biography or a novel, --the first question that presented itself concerned the substance of the matter in hand. What was to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...kind. A narrative, a description, an argument, a play, I find, may any and all of them be planned in very much the same way. In considering these chapters, then, --just as in planning a biography or a novel, --the first question that presented itself concerned the substance of the matter in hand. What was to be said; and more important still, what was to be left unsaid? In the present state of human intelligence, I find one is far more apt to drag in needless, useless, even irrelevant matter, than to leave out matter really essential. In answering this question, I found, and I know of, no better guide than the old principle of Unity. Every composition should group itself about one central idea. In a sentence, as we saw, this idea is sometimes a single word, and almost always a perfectly simple assertion. In a paragraph it is apt to be a thing which phrases itself in a larger way: a paragraph, we remember, is to a sentence what a sentence is to a word; and just as the centre of unity in a sentence is generally a word, so the centre of unity in a paragraph is generally a sentence. In a whole composition--like this chapter, or the series of which it forms a part--the scale is larger still. The centre of unity may generally be a thing as large as a paragraph; but if we are to have a unity that is anything more than chance, a centre of anity, and a thoroughly apprehended one, we must have. In discussing paragraphs, you will remember, we found that the most convenient test of unity was whether we could summarize the paragraph in a single sentence. In a whole composition the most convenient test of unity is whether we can sum up its substance in a single paragraph. Once for all, then, in composing these chapters I bound myself by this simple condition: I.
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