George Eliot’s classic Middlemarch is considered by many to be one of the great novels of the English language, yet readers admit that very little of significance happens in the book. That was Eliot’s point. In its famous closing lines, she writes, “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs” (George Elio...
The Growing Good In The World
