Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

Chapter 1 the Dickens period 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 common-place 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 indefi...

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