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What the editor does in the case of a periodical, the readers do in the case of literature in general.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “What the editor does in the case of a periodical, the readers do in the case of literature in general.”
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Bagehot draws a parallel between the role of editors in periodicals and the behavior of readers in literature.
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