审查制度和艺术-Galsworthy.pdf

英文名著3000 本 Studies and Essays: Censorship and Art by John Galsworthy 1 英文名著3000 本 Je vous dirai que lexces est toujours un mal.- ANATOLE FRANCE 2 英文名著3000 本 TABLE OF CONTENTS: ABOUT CENSORSHIP VAGUE THOUGHTS ON ART 3 英文名著3000 本 ABOUT CENSORSHIP Since, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free institutions, that the great majority of our fellow- countrymen consider the only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the Censorship of Plays, a bulwark for the preservation of their comfort and sensibility against the spiritual researches and speculations of bolder and too active spirits--it has become time to consider whether we should not seriously extend a principle, so grateful to the majority, to all our institutions. For no one can deny that in practice the Censorship of Drama works with a smooth swiftness--a lack of delay and friction unexampled in any publi office. No troublesome publicity and tedious postponement for the purpose of appeal mar its efficiency. It is neither 4 英文名著3000 本 hampered by the Law nor by the slow process of popular election. Welcomed by the overwhelming majority of the public; objected to only by such persons as suffer from it, and a negligible faction, who, wedded pedantically to liberty of the subject, are resentful of summary powers vested in a sin