George Henry Lewes Quotes
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.
Lewes, George Henry. The Physiology of Common Life. Vol. 2, William Blackwood and Sons, 1860, p. 1.
Later American politicians expounded the same view. See Otis Singletary {585931} and Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259}. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
George Henry Lewes was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He was also an amateur physiologist. American feminist Margaret Fuller called Lewes a "witty, French, flippant sort of man". He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious skepticism. However, he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, as soulmates whose lives and writings were enriched by their relationship, though they never married each other.
