The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

He also edited Eliza Fay's (1756–1816) letters from India in an edition first publiE. M. Forsterd in 1925. Sprott and for a time the composer Benjamin Britten. After returning to London from India he completed his last novel A Passage to India (1924) for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English novelist short story writer essayist and librettist. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect … ".