Your knowledge of English Literature – to which I am indebted for the first faithful and intelligent translation of my novels into the Italian language – has long since informed you, that there are certain important social topics which are held to be forbidden to the English novelist (no matter how seriously and how delicately he may treat them), by a narrow-minded minority of readers, and by the critics who flatter their prejudices. You also know, having done me the honor to read my books; that I respect my art far too sincerely to permit limits to be wantonly assigned to it, which are imposed in no other civilized country on the face of the earth. When my work is undertaken with a pure purpose, I claim the same liberty which is accorded to a writer in a newspaper, or to a clergyman in a pulpit; knowing, by previous experience, that the increase of readers and the lapse of time will assuredly do me justice, if I have only written well enough to deserve it.
Which selections best indicates how the author believes he will be vindicated?
A. when sufficient people cry out for more liberal values
B. when moral values deteriorate over time
C. when well recognized enough to command acceptance
D. when enough readers read over a prolonged period of time
E. when the limiting country lessens its hold on literary writers
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