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Ir neighbours. In a word, we shall set nobody together by the ears. And
though we have encouraged the ingenious world to correspond with us by
letters, we hope they will not take it ill, that we say beforehand, no
letters will be taken notice of by us which contain any personal
reproaches, intermeddle with family breaches, or tend to scandal or
indecency of any kind." "The current papers are more than sufficient to
carry on all the dirty work the town can have for them to do; and what
with party strife, politics, poetic quarrels, and all the other
consequences of a wrangling age, they are in no danger of wanting
employment; and those readers who delight in such things, may divert
themselves there. But our views, as is said above, lie another way."
Good writing is what Defoe promises the readers of the _Universal
Spectator_, and this leads him to consider what particular
qualifications go to the composition, or, in a word, "what is required
to denominate a man