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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte

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Preface
A preface to the first edition of ‘Jane Eyre’ being
unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a
few words both of acknowledgmentand miscellaneous
remark.
My thanks are due in three quarters.
To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a
plain tale with few pretensions.
To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has
opened to an obscure aspirant.
To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy,
their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an
unknown and unrecommended Author.The 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.

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Having 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 whateveris 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.
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is
not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To
pluck the mask from theface of the Pharisee, is not to lift
an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
These 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-redeemingcreed 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.

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The 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 cleanshrines.
It may hate him who dares to scrutinise and expose—to
rase 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.
Ahab 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 bloodydeath, had he but stopped his
ears to flattery, and opened them to faithful counsel.
There 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 dauntlessand as daring. Is the
satirist of ‘Vanity Fair’ admired in high places? I cannot
tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls
the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes
the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to take his

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warnings in time—they or their seed might yet escape a
fatal Rimoth-Gilead.
Why have I alluded to this man? I have...