“ Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations. ”
H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man (1897). copy citation
| Author | H. G. Wells |
|---|---|
| Source | The Invisible Man |
| Topic | experience women |
| Date | 1897 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5230/5230-h/5230-h.htm |
Context
“And of these witnesses Mr. Wadgers was presently missing, having retired impregnably behind the bolts and bars of his own house, and Jaffers was lying stunned in the parlour of the "Coach and Horses." Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations. Iping was gay with bunting, and everybody was in gala dress. Whit Monday had been looked forward to for a month or more. By the afternoon even those who believed in the Unseen were beginning to resume their little amusements in a tentative fashion, on the supposition that he had quite gone away, and with the sceptics he was already a jest.”
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