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Conspicuous among these comic boys of Dickens may be remembered one who, instead of being introduced in any of the Novelist's larger works, from the Pickwick Papers clown to Edwin Drood, interpolates himself, as may be said, among one of the groups of Christmas stories, through the medium of a shrill monologue.
"I am indeed of your opinion of your way of thinking most certainly," interpolates Madame Montford, a shadow of melancholy darkening her countenance. "At length, he went at it, and repeated over an infinite quantity of names. It was wonderful to see how he could keep them all in his head. 'Well, now, says he, turning to me with an inoffensive laugh, 'she ben't dead. You may bet on that.
"And you've only seen her once!" says Jane, reproachfully. "But she kept me from falling on the rocks, you know. I might have been hurt ever so much more; why maybe I might have been killed!" "You were a naughty little girl to run away," interpolates Jane, with some severity. "I shall never run away again, Jane," Cecil promises, with solemnity. "But I didn't mean to slip.
The admirably pure and tender heart, and the exquisite intellectual refinement implied in the Vicar and the Traveller, force us to love Goldsmith in spite of superficial foibles, and when Johnson prunes or interpolates lines in the Traveller, we feel as though a woodman's axe was hacking at a most delicate piece of carving.
Then Corkey returns and interpolates a column death scene on the raft. "Too bad there wasn't no starving," he laments. "I was hungry enough to starve." The boat comes ashore in the breakers, and as the result of an all-night's struggle with the muse of conventionality Corkey has seven columns of double-leaded copy.
"We do," replies the other, with quite un-British enthusiasm. "No one who has spent any time as a visitor to this country could help " "Why then, tell me," interpolates the other, "what is at the back of your country's present resentful attitude toward America?" The Briton ponders.
The amens of the dusty clerk appear, like Macbeth's, to stick in his throat a little'; but Captain Cuttle helps him out, and does it with so much goodwill that he interpolates three entirely new responses of that word, never introduced into the service before.
What a scientific hypothesis interpolates among the given facts the atomic structure of things, for instance might come in time under the direct fire of attention, fixed more scrupulously, longer, or with better instruments upon those facts themselves.
The philosopher here stands for the stage of thought that goes beyond the stage of common sense; and the difference is simply that he 'interpolates' and 'extrapolates, where common sense does not. For common sense, two men see the same identical real dog.
He fixes only a few results, he dots a curve and then interpolates, he substitutes a tracing for a reality. This being so undeniably the case, the history of the way in which philosophy has dealt with it is curious. The ruling tradition in philosophy has always been the platonic and aristotelian belief that fixity is a nobler and worthier thing than change. Reality must be one and unalterable.