George Eliot - Middlemarch

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from Mary Anne Evans’s (pen name George Eliot) 1872 book ‘Middlemarch : a study of provincial life’. This is a description of the typical mindset of the time and place.

Is it familiar ?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch