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Dim Lights, from Steve Leslie

October 3, 2006 |

Among American authors, my favorite is Steinbeck. And I have always had great affectation for Jack London. But George Eliot is my favorite author after Charles Dickens, so I wanted to share this passage from her novel Middlemarch:

With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul.


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