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It is not probable that this writer will be likely to undervalue political economy, or the steam-engine, or any other solid and practical good which God has unveiled to this generation. Even now the real discoveries of the age are made, as of old, by a very few men; and, when made, have to struggle, as of old, against all manner of superstitions, lazinesses, scepticisms.
Requires to be scanned with all one's faculty; to be interpreted; to be obeyed, in spite of one's reluctances and lazinesses. The public Events so called, which have been occupying mankind during this Voltaire Visit, require now mainly to be forgotten; and may, for our purposes, be conveniently riddled down to Three.
I had so made up my mind that it was the only method of getting what I wanted, that I neglected, alas! but too often, to try the methods which lay already by me. "If we had but the Charter" was the excuse for a thousand lazinesses, procrastinations. "If we had but the Charter" I should be good, and free, and happy. Fool that I was! It was within, rather than without, that I needed reform.
He revelled in Dickens, but, about Thackeray well, I would rather have talked to somebody else! "He takes you into a garden, and then pelts you with" horrid things! Mr. Stevenson, on the other hand, had a free admiration of Mr. George Meredith. He did not so easily forgive the longueus and lazinesses of Scott, as a Scot should do. He read French much; Greek only in translations.
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