Charles Dickens Quotes
Change begets change.
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Chapman & Hall, 1844, p. 297.
This is one of the reasons that many politicians fear reform and change. The process triggers more change that is ever accelerating, rendering anyone impotent to assess the extent, timing and nature. There are inevitable unintended consequences.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. It was then, and still is common to refer to the results of evolution as “miracles” as Darwin had revealed the process but did not opine on the origin or creation of the process. With many religious people at the time a sensible dialogue and inquiry could be made of evolution so long as the possibility of a Supreme Being creating the mechanism of evolution remained open. Fundamentalists, however, insisted that the Bible stated that God made each of the species in its then current form and therefore they rejected even the possibility that God had created the evolutionary scheme which implemented his miracles.
Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today.
