Sunday, April 26, 2020
Distant and Domestic Misery
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter XLIX:
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.But cf. Mrs. Jellyby in Dicken's Bleak House, whose efforts on behalf of the natives of Borrioboola-Gha in Africa are unstinting, but whose neglect of her own family is so extreme that her daughter Caddy finally cries out, "I wish Africa was dead!"
