ABSTRACT
What can be fairer than this? On the contrary what more barbarous than to point out the Faults of an Author, or of a Man, to the World, and at the same time, by concealing their Excellencies, to insinuate that they have none. The World wants our Assistance more to enable them to discern what is lovely than what is odious; why then should we with-hold it from them? In God’s Name let us speak out honestly, and set the good against the bad, that the Public may judge which preponderates. This would be a fair Method; and this Men would pursue, if Truth, and not Spleen, Rancour, Malice and Revenge guided their Pens.
