The mighty volume of the world
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name, if not in the text, at least in a laudatory note: whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents. But an attention fixed on the main theme or various matter of the book would deliver us from that slavish subjection to our own self-importance. And I had the mighty volume of the world before me. Nay, I had the struggling action of a myriad lives around me, each single life as dear to itself as mine to me. Was there no escape here from this stupidity of a murmuring self-occupation?
George Eliot – Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)
We now have that mighty volume of the world before us, it’s the internet. In George Eliot’s day it was books, libraries, experience, an enquiring mind and the time and resources to nurture that enquiring mind.
Was there no escape here from this stupidity of a murmuring self-occupation?
Some escape and some don’t and the division isn’t new. Nobody has to join the internet, they can play with it instead, entertain themselves, imagine they are what they are not. Yet perhaps the division is much sharper and far less likely to be a matter of social class than it was in George Eliot‘s day.
We have always seen this type of invitation to indulge in the stupidity of a murmuring self-occupation, but now we have dropped the murmuring in favour of something much louder and far more visible. It all goes to make the division deeper.
Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-mighty-volume-of-world.html
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