Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Quotes from work
Charles Dickens
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.
“America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.”
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 6 "Dickens and America"
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 10 "The Great Dickens Characters"
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 8 "The Time of Transition"
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.”
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 10 "The Great Dickens Characters"
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Context: Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that we confuse the word "indefinable" with the word "vague." If some one speaks of a spiritual fact as "indefinable" we promptly picture something misty, a cloud with indeterminate edges. But this is an error even in commonplace logic. The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact. It is our arms and legs, our pots and pans, that are indefinable. The indefinable is the indisputable. The man next door is indefinable, because he is too actual to be defined. And there are some to whom spiritual things have the same fierce and practical proximity; some to whom God is too actual to be defined.
“The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.”
Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Charles Dickens (1906)
Context: Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that we confuse the word "indefinable" with the word "vague." If some one speaks of a spiritual fact as "indefinable" we promptly picture something misty, a cloud with indeterminate edges. But this is an error even in commonplace logic. The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact. It is our arms and legs, our pots and pans, that are indefinable. The indefinable is the indisputable. The man next door is indefinable, because he is too actual to be defined. And there are some to whom spiritual things have the same fierce and practical proximity; some to whom God is too actual to be defined.
If some one speaks of a spiritual fact as "indefinable" we promptly picture something misty, a cloud with indeterminate edges. But this is an error even in commonplace logic. The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact. It is our arms and legs, our pots and pans, that are indefinable. The indefinable is the indisputable. The man next door is indefinable, because he is too actual to be defined. And there are some to whom spiritual things have the same fierce and practical proximity; some to whom God is too actual to be defined.
Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Charles Dickens (1906)
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Charles Dickens (1906)
