Excerpt from The Epic of the Inner Life: Being the Book of Job

The Book Of Job, full as it is Of religious edification, is also a poem, a work Of literary art, to be read and judged as we would read and judge any poem, with the same favoring presuppositions, the same candor of criticism. It has long been my conviction that if we should make for it no demand but the literary demand, seeking in the broad diffused light of every day simply that unity of idea and treat ment which we have a right to expect in every work of art, the book would prove itself not less sacred, rather more, while also it would gain greatly by stepping out Of its age-con structed frame Of abstruse erudition into com mon people's homes and hearts.' Whether by the present Translation, Notes, and Introduc tory Study I have in any degree succeeded in verifying this conviction must be left to my readers to judge.

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