"The notion that books may so broaden and deepen one's knowledge of life, and so sharpens one's perceptions, that he can live more wisely and judge more intelligently, has dropped out of [Charles] Kingsley's mind -- and to a large extent, out of Victorian, in fact the modern, mind."
-- The Victorian Frame of Mind, Walter E. Houghton, 1957, p. 119.
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