"Our common Prints would be of great Use were they thus calculated to diffuse good Sense through the Bulk of a People, to clear up their Understandings, animate their Minds with Virtue, dissipate the Sorrows of a heavy Heart, or unbend the Mind from its more severe Employments with innocent Amusements."
Spectator, No. 124
See Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), i, 505-8.