Re: the nature of Man.

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>My dear Mr Hart,

>  What a searching question!  I instructed my dear children always to
>seek answers to such, in the sacred record passed down to
>us, of the life of Our Saviour.  I cannot advise you better.
>  But my conjecture is that such an answer will not satisfy you.  You wish to
>know how I strove to meet the question in my books, in so far as such trifles
>can meet such a question.
>  Man, alas, is a fallen creature, capable of good, given to evil, destined
>to neither.  My Oliver Twist resists all evil, but there would be no story,
>could we take his resistence for granted.  Such a personality as M Blandois,
>alias M Rigaud, is capable of good, and good must be hoped for from
>him, however vain the hope.  Yet does not the very art of fiction itself hold
>the key to the amplest of answers?  I like to think the best of my
>books are about people who learn to distinguish good from bad
>true from false, the lovely from the vile.  Does not our capacity for
>learning hold out hope?

>Faithfully yours,



Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens
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