Let him depict the soul as he may, except in the case of Basil Hallward, Mr. Wilde never rises above the animal soul in man. It is the animal soul alone, dominated by a refined but perverted intellect, seeking an animal gratification in sensuous beauty, which he puts before us. Dorian Gray suffocated in its infancy the only germ of spiritual soul he possessed.
[22] Pp. 65, 66.
[23] p. 77.
[24] p. 75.
[25] p. 68.
[26] p. 74.
The fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose.
