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Show World's Debt to Humorists. Cervantes, the great Spaniard whose epic humor has made the lean fig- ure of a tvalf-crazed knight a synonym ( for laughter and tears throughout the world, the genius who gave the world in Sancho Panza a comic figure so intensely in-tensely human that it deserves to rank with Shakespeare's immortal creation cre-ation of Sir John FalstafT. he, too, had a sermon to preacn against silly romanticism ro-manticism and tlwe foolish, tales of chivalrous advenr-jres. Go through the list. The humorist who wrote with the mere idea of affording af-fording diversion and with no tuought of a deeper message is the one whose work soon grows obsolete. The great artists feel the obligation of their genius. gen-ius. They hold a great instrument in their hands, they use it for noble ends and their work lives after them. |