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That he has enriched the English lan guage goes without saying. That the English-speaking peoples are indebted to him for this goes, likewise, without say ing. In the light of a newer criticism Oscar Wilde will be seen to have also been the prophet of the modern social gospel. And in the De Profundis and in The Soul of Man Under Socialism we have not only the moulder of fine sentences, but the heart and very soul of a man. Some have spoken of Oscar Wilde, saying that he was ever the man of attitudes and.

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Excerpt from A Study of Oscar Wilde

The Angel of Death has already come and gone for the personality of Oscar Wilde some years since, but it has not, nor can it touch the immortality of his thought or of his soul. These are eternal, joyous off-shootings of the Soul of God. Earthly judgment may praise or censure the man of whom this is written, but it cannot interfere with the judgment of Him who wots of poets' ways even, verily, as His Very Own. And in the fulfillment of things it has come to pass that the present generation sanctions the greatness and the wisdom of Oscar Wilde, whom his own generation failed to understand. Now he is seen to have been the philosopher throughout, under the happy disguise of the dramatist, the artist and the satirist.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.