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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Dickens, Charles

Dickens, Charles
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Hard Times: Book 2, Chapters 7 - 12

Chapter 7: Gunpowder

Mr. Harthouse has been making good headway in Coketown politics because
of his open opportunism and ability to compromise. "The not being troubled
with earnestness was a grand point in his favour . . . ," writes Dickens.

He is holding forth to Louisa on his philosophy, or the lack of it.
Virtue, benevolence, or philanthropy are all meaningless, he says. Her careful
training in Gradgrindism had disposed her to agree with this view, but there
was now also "a struggling disposition to believe in ...

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