The only effect

The only effect I ardently log to produce by my writing is, that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling, erring human creatures.

George Eliot to Charles Bray

5 July 1859

Humanity

Published by the George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, 2025. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org

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