...access to the consciousness of another creature is reworked by Eliot in Chapter 20 of the same novel: If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. That final sarcasm is finely poised. For it is not stupid to be wadded...

...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. However, Dorothea was crying, and if she had been required to state the...

...Eliot points directly to the practical importance of the limitations of human consciousness: if we hud a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,...of silence. As it is. the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. (Middlemarch, p. 194) Here, Eliot strikingly echoes Huxley, who writes:...

...the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 If we had keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. ~ George Eliot, 1819-1880 ~ Middlemarch, 1872 I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing,...

...deceptively commonplace, passage about the ordinariness of tragedy: "If we had a keen vision and feeling for all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing...that roar which lies on the other side of silence" (ch. 20, 182) glosses the Casaubons' honeymoon, but ostensibly — while we read at least — it articulates...

...you what happened to my parents." He headed toward the door, "think about it Andi," He left quietly. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all Ordinary...be like Hearing the grass grow and the Squirrel's heartbeat, and we should die Of that roar which lies on the other side Of silence. As it is, the quickest...

...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. (p. 226) This 'stupidity' in Tolstoy and Eliot, as defence against the...

...a response to the poverty of our own emotional imagination; with George Eliot we might then concur: If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. (Eliot 1986/1871, 226) 115 That 'stupidity' usefully insulates us against...

...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. George Eliot, Middlemarch To reach George Eliot's roar on the 'other side of silence' requires a state...

...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. . . "7s "The roar which lies on the other side of silence." What a magnificent way of setting forth...