Excerpt from Moliere But Moliere is not only a true humourist; he is also an apostle of common sense. He looks at life from the point of View of the average man, not of the intellectual and the high-brow. He takes the verdict of the community rather than that of a few superior persons. Like the other great writers of his age, he makes no exalted claim on behalf of human nature, but he has a kindly feeling for its shortcomings, as one who is conscious of his own frailty. He is a healthy rather than a lofty moralist, unsparing of the grasping, the insolent, and the self-opinion ated, but tolerant towards ignorance, folly, and credulity. 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.