We  hate  the  false  calumny,  but  we  are  half  pleased
with  the  false  praise.  It  is  evidently  not  the  element
of  untruth  here  that  is  displeasing,  but  the  element  of
harmfulness.  Now,  he  is  a  man  of  integrity  who  hates
untruth  as  untruth ;  who  resents  the  smooth  and  pol-
ished falsehood  of  society,  which  does  no  harm ;  who
turns  in  indignation  from  the  glittering,  whitened  lie
of  sepulchral  Pharisaism,  which  injures  no  one.  Integ-
rity recoils  from  deceptions  which  men  would  almost
smile  to  hear  called  deception.  To  a  moral,  pure
mind,  the  artifices  in  every  department  of  life  are
painful :  the  stained  wood,  which  passes  for  a  more
firm  and  costly  material  in  a  building,  and  deceives  the
eye,  by  seeming  what  it  is  not,  marble  ;  the  painting
which  is  intended  to  be  taken  for  a  reality ;  the  gilding
which  is  meant  to  pass  for  gold ;  and  the  glass  which
is  worn  to  look  like  jewels:  for  there  is  a  moral  feeling
and  a  truthfulness  in  architecture,  in  painting,  and  in
dress,  as  well  as  in  the  market-place,  and  in  the  senate,
and  in  the  judgment-hall.
