The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-01-24

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I heen more gernane to the story OF
Goketown and its people, which
JDickens published under the name OF
HARD Times Dickens dedicated the
Il tory to Carlyle and there can be no
N ainsaying that the influence Of that
|rophet.'' as Andrew Long puts ii, lis
in the moral. dickens
leems to have written Hard Times
M the express purpose of using club
NpOn some Of his pet aversiOns. nota-
&9e the ''hard fact fellows who al
zapW imagination no place in the
chemc OF life. His attack upon the
self made man. is vicious in its bru-
51fty, though Dickens himself was
i6e0-n.adc man and IN MS othef
ff6ries he, many times, glOrified that
Q1uot Of civilization. But Dickens
This time was. apparently. saturated
Tn Carlyle and a person i'll that
lie OF mentality is really not respon-
Tile AS weil-constructed story
ard Times is Il failure. But as
&6hing, Whacking assault upon every
4iCutiOn and upon Utmost every
~ of man or woman brought into
6e story it is a success. The char
Cter drawing ranks among the best
E6Ork Of Dickens: but we cannot bat
tel that it would have been betteE.
It'd Carlyics digestion been better.
S3Thomas Gradrind was a man Of
3cts-a man Of realities, with a rule
md a pair of scales and multiple
skation table always in his pocket to
weigh and measure any parcel Of hu-
manity and tell you what it came to.
Two and two made four with him.
never anything over and never any
thing under. But if Thomas Grad
IA h
q 8QAnderby was a man whose Facts
Xere a little moro uneOmprOm1Sins
Ind with whom two and two made
s3our a trif1e more absolutely than they
hid with Gradgrind. They were
both leading citizens of that matter
ENf fact place, Coketown. where no
ssQOnSenSe was allO wed to raise its head
Rithout being trampled upon. To be
k&Are, the hands in the grimy fac
%&Dries, according TO Mr. Bounderpy,
aNere in a constant state OF wanting
10 be ''set up in q coach and six and
Led on turtle soup and venison with
E& gold spoon. But they never were.
asMr. Bounderby had a mill and q bank
md looked out that no such unnatural
'N4issipation was permitted them
'sS# Mr.. Bounderby governed by arith-
'ametic-SO many hands in this mill, SO
many hundred horse steam power.
1T is known to a single pound what
the engine will do, but it never occur
red to BOunderby and Gradgrind that
not all the calcula tors of the national
sdebd can tell the capacity for good or
Fs&Wil. for love or haired, for patriotism
sA9f discomfort. for the decomposition
Inf virtue into vice or the reverse at
my single moment in the soul of one
mt these its quiet servants with the
M&Om posed faces and the regulated ac-
5MOnS There is an unfathomable
8mystery in the meanest Of them for
sAever Would it not be better to re-
nerve our arithmetic for material OBJ
@3ects and to govern these awful un-
#known quantities by other means?
6Thomas radgrind was examininS-in
his Way-the scholars arranged
zmathematically and educated mathe,
#matically in a gloomy vault of a
ssBchool room. He looked upon the
#children before him as SO many little
jars to be filled with facts, as Nor
sgana filled the jars containing the
4foTty Thieves. Girl No. 90 said
xMr. Gradgrind. L do not know that
6girl.' please, sir. I'm Sissy Jupe,'
said Sirl No 20. Sissy is no name
say Cecilia" replied Mr.. Grandgrind
InquirinS further, he found out that
the girl belonged to some strolling
circus people who were temporarily
corrupting the town by q DISPLAY Of
bareback riding, trick-dog perform
ing ana such like Vanites totally un-
connected with the multiplication
table
ot course the good man was shock
Ell, but he managed to ask her to
define horse, and when Sissy fell
into irretrievable confusion in the at
tempt Mr. Gradgcind said it was moth
ing more than he expected, and called
upon his favorite scholar. vonne
Rjf2aP
youth with colorless eyes and hair
whose skin was so deficient in natural
tinge that he looked as il he would
bleed white IL anybody cut bir,
Bitter, your definition of q horse?,,
'Quadruped. Graminiverous Forty
seeth, namely. tWenty-four grinders.
noul eIeteeth ana twelve incisiye.
Sheds coat in spring: in 1uarshc co,n