Excerpt from The Inner Life of George Eliot Jew and Gentile, the book may still be a Gospel. I know quite well that it will be said again that, in Daniel Deronda, the moralist eat up the artist. I deny that. Once it is seen that George Eliot's art is the fruit of her impassioned morality, that it is insep arable from it, and that her real kinship is with the best of the old Hebrew Prophets, such criticism will lose all force. Of course, I do not claim that Daniel Deronda is not open to severe criticism in parts, but I do say that in it George Eliot reached heights and depths which she touched in no other work, and that whatever its failures, a book that contains such a creation as Mordecai becomes of imperishable value. 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.