The Double Dealer, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Double Dealer, Vol. 1 In November 1693 Master William Congreve´s comedy, "The Double Dealer," made its debut before an assemblage of the beaux and belles of Restoration London, the beauty and wit of the court of William III, January, 1921, The Double Dealer plays again. On this occasion it takes the form of a monthly magazine, but its appeal once more is to that select audience for whom romance and irony lie not so many leagues apart; whose veneration for art, music, and letters, is not so solemn that it cannot be lightened by a sense of humor; whose opinions of society, economics, and politics are drawn, not from the perusal of dusty books, but rather from the vision of tolerant eyes estimating the devious ways of the world. Honesty And The Double Dealer Honesty is the best policy," said Benjamin Franklin, the prototype of one hundred percent. Americanism. But when Franklin wrote that he was making a confession, he was telling the truth about the citadels of power, a dangerous practice and one hardly in vogue since Machiavelli babbled in exile four hundred years ago. Today these words are slyly changed into the motto, "Honesty is our policy," which screams from every bazaar in the market-place. Each man now marches in the procession of the righteous wearing the monotonous mask of integrity. Yet they do not pass unrecognized. Ever and anon the mask slips for a minute and we glimpse strangely familiar faces, we seem to remember them about the Scaean Gates, on the plains of Troy, "advancing true friends, and beating back alien foes," bartering mercy for gold; in a crowded courtroom of Athens, intent on doing to death Socrates for being nobler than they, listening courteously to his plea with stopped ears; in an inner chamber of the Vatican trafficking in assassination and chicane with the Borgias. The play is interminable in its acts; and the persons of the drama are still the band of cut-purses, thimbleriggers, and their following, that men call The World - age old and ageless. So, Honesty remains only the best policy. However, if the grapes of true honesty hang forever beyond our baffled reach, most of us, at least, work in the shadow of the vine. There is an elastic line which we indifferently toe. Hamlet called himself "indifferent honest;" nearly all could sing refrain. Certainly there are those whose delight it is to play hop-scotch with the line of demarkation, teasing more timid souls with a "now I´m outside, now I´m inside. And those there are who range outside the margin altogether, the daredevils of the world, who must draw danger with every breath and are necessarily mad when measured by the safety-first yard-stick. What awed us about Ponzi was not the dishonesty of the hoax but the man´s brobdignagian brass. But, heigh-ho, you say, what has all this to do with The Double Dealer, this unchanging depravity and this timorousness of human nature? Here is the answer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
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