“ Whatever is built by man for man’s occupation, must, like natural creations, fulfil the intention of its existence, or soon perish. ”
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (1865). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | Our Mutual Friend |
| Topic | creation occupation |
| Date | 1865 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/883/883-h/883-h.htm |
Context
“A gloomy house the Bower, with sordid signs on it of having been, through its long existence as Harmony Jail, in miserly holding. Bare of paint, bare of paper on the walls, bare of furniture, bare of experience of human life. Whatever is built by man for man’s occupation, must, like natural creations, fulfil the intention of its existence, or soon perish. This old house had wasted—more from desuetude than it would have wasted from use, twenty years for one.
A certain leanness falls upon houses not sufficiently imbued with life (as if they were nourished upon it)”
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