It will come; you may advance or
retard, but you cannot prevent it. It will work out like the
development of organic nature. In the present state of
civilization and with the scientific means of happiness at our
command, the notion of home should be obsolete. Home is a
barbarous idea; the method of a rude age; home is isolation;
therefore anti-social. What we want is Community."
"It is all very fine," said Gerard, "and I dare say you are
right, Stephen; but I like stretching my feet on my own
hearth."
Book 3 Chapter 10
Time passes with a measured and memorable wing during the
first period of a sojourn in a new place, among new characters
and new manners. Every person, every incident, every feeling,
touches and stirs the imagination. The restless mind creates
and observes at the same time. Indeed there is scarcely any
popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when
time is slow, life is dull. It is very often and very much
the reverse. If we look back on those passages of our life
which dwell most upon the memory, they are brief periods full
of action and novel sensation. Egremont found this so during
the first days of his new residence in Mowedale.
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