The connection between these two pairs of subdivisions is evident; hypocrisy belonging on the whole to the vicious branch, and sentimentality, to the foolish. [40] _Satires_, II, 1. [41] _The Steele Glas._ [42] Preface to _The Journey to Parnassus_. Gibson’s translation. [43] Fielding: _Tom Jones_. The phrase omitted from the Dryden citation above is, “where the very name of satire is formidable to those persons, who would appear to the world what they are not in themselves:” [44] Raleigh: _The English Novel_. [45] _Hist. of Eng. Lit._: on Dickens. [46] _Imaginary Conversations_: Lucian and Timotheus. Timotheus, exultant over the _Dialogues_, remarks that “Nothing can be so gratifying and satisfactory to a rightly disposed mind, as the subversion of imposture by the force of ridicule.” Disappointed, however, in his assumption that Lucian is now ready to embrace the true faith, which turns out to be a _non sequitur_, he accuses the inflexible pagan of sacrilege, ready to turn into ridicule the true and the holy. To which Lucian in turn replies “In other words, to turn myself into a fool. He who brings ridicule to bear against Truth, finds in his hands a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.” Lucian himself, in _The Angler_, declares it his business to hate quacks, jugglery, lies, and conceit. [47] _Essay on Comedy._ [48] _Laughter_, 174. [49] _Byron as a Satirist_, 180. [50] _Political Satire in English Poetry_, 240. In his _Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature_, Wendell contributes another link to the chain of evidence: “Sincere or not, satire is essentially a kind of writing which pretends to unmask pretense.” [51] Hazlett, in his essay on _Wit and Humour_, remarks that “it has appeared that the detection and exposure of difference, particularly where this implies nice and subtle observation, as in discriminating between pretence and practice, between appearance and reality, is common to wit and satire with judgment and reasoning.” [52] Meredith characterises the chase of Folly by the Comic Spirit as conducted “with the springing delight of hawk over heron, hound after fox.” [53] _Satires_: I, IV, 78 ff. [54] _Universal Passion._ [55] _Charity._ [56] _Literary Theory and Criticism._ The Poetry of Pope. [57] _Imag. Conv._ Lucian to Timotheus. [58] _Arist. Apol._ [59] In spite of Cowper’s and Byron’s assertions to the contrary. [60] “All zeal for a reform that gives offense To peace and charity, is mere pretense; A bold remark; but which, if well applied, Would humble many a tow’ring poet’s pride.” (_Charity._) [61] _Sea Dreams._ [62] _Collected Essays_, I, 187. [63] _Post Liminium._ [64] Preface to _Headlong Hall_, in the Aldine edition of Peacock, 40. In his _Essay on Comedy_, Meredith goes beyond mere absence of hate: