The Literary Imagination -
'Noting in his children a strange and unsavory exuberance of imagination, an unwholesome flowering of sentiment - in short, a lase from that perfect scientific rationality on which both private and public life, when well managed, depend - Mr. Gradgrind, economist, public man, and educator, inquiries into the cause:
"Wheather," said Mr. Gradgrind, pondering with his hand in his pockets, and his cavernous eyes on the fire, "whether any instructor on servant can have suggested anything? Whether Louisa or Thomas can have been reading anything? Whether, in spite of precautions, any idle story-book can have got into the house? Because, in minds that have been practically formed by rule and line, from the cradle upwards, that is so curious, so incomprehensible."
'Noting in his children a strange and unsavory exuberance of imagination, an unwholesome flowering of sentiment - in short, a lase from that perfect scientific rationality on which both private and public life, when well managed, depend - Mr. Gradgrind, economist, public man, and educator, inquiries into the cause:
"Wheather," said Mr. Gradgrind, pondering with his hand in his pockets, and his cavernous eyes on the fire, "whether any instructor on servant can have suggested anything? Whether Louisa or Thomas can have been reading anything? Whether, in spite of precautions, any idle story-book can have got into the house? Because, in minds that have been practically formed by rule and line, from the cradle upwards, that is so curious, so incomprehensible."
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