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more food for reflection in the moral humourists than in the intel- 

 lectual, in the school of Plato, Lowell and Shaw and the like, than in 

 Aristophanes, Canning, Frere, Gilbert and the rest. But after all, 

 the two schools are not mutually exclusive; there are humourists 

 hovering between them, the connecting link; when Fielding satirises 

 Square, is it the false pedantic ideal he satirises or the faithless be- 

 trayal of the false ideal ? Or each alike ? The two sides of humour 

 the two species of incongruity, seem to have met and mixed in the 

 humourous picture of Square. 



