TAILIEUCHUNG - Middlemarch

Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in "Middlemarch" (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships | Middlemarch By George Eliot New York and Boston H. M. Caldwell Company Publishers Ebd PRELUDE Who that cares much to know the history of man and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time has not dwelt at least briefly on the life of Saint Theresa has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors Out they toddled from rugged Avila wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns but with human hearts already beating to a national idea until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa s passionate ideal nature demanded an epic life what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel and fed from within soared after some illimitable satisfaction some object which would never justify weariness which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order. That Spanish woman who lived three hundred years ago was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action perhaps only a life of mistakes the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. 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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