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Sep 08, 2017Quietday rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Loved it. Sweet, pastoral and all the subtleties of the classics that makes the character development so great. I was pretty affected by the description in the very beginning when Silas fell upon such hard luck, because I have felt this way in my own life when religion let me down: "Pour Marner went out with that despair in his soul- that shaken trust in God and man, which is little short of madness to a loving nature...To people accustomed to reason about the forms in which their religious feeling has incorporated itself, it is difficult to enter into that simple, untaught state of mind in which the form and the feeling have never been severed by an act of reflection. We are apt to think it inevitable that a man in Marner's position should have begun to question the validity of an appeal to the divine judgment by drawing lots; but to him this would have been an effort of independent thought such as he had never known; and he must have made the effort at a moment when all his energies were turned into the anguish of disappointed faith." p. 17.