Quote#Nature
The real drama of Evangelicalism—and it has abundance of fine drama…
Quote byGeorge Eliot · 1819–1880
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists', The Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. X, No. II (1 October 1856), p. 457.
English (original)
The real drama of Evangelicalism—and it has abundance of fine drama for any one who has genius enough to discern and reproduce it—lies among the middle and lower classes; and are not Evangelical opinions understood to give an especial interest in the weak things of the earth, rather than in the mighty?
— George Eliot
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