The forces that _shape_ human nature are the forces that must be felt in the picture and in the story.

That these determining forces are so seldom seen by the eyes of the world, is the reason _for_ pictures and stories.

The artist who fails to realize for his world the character-creating elements in the life which he essays to paint or write, fails, to just that degree, in being an artist; or is self-branded by his work as criminally careless, a charlatan or a liar.

That one who, for a price, presents a picture or a story without regard for the influence of his production upon the characters of those who receive it, commits a crime for which human law provides no adequate punishment.

Being the famous Conrad Lagrange, you understand, I have the right to say this.