George Eliot Quotes
In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.
Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. William Blackwood and Sons, 1860.
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.
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1862–63), Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876). Like Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy, she emerged from provincial England and most of her works are set there. They are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside.
