Writer and critic George Henry Lewes has a lot to answer for. In 1839, Lewes visited the up-and-coming author Charles Dickens at his home in Doughty Street, London, UK, and, after a swift glance at his bookcases, declared that Dickens was “completely outside philosophy, science, and the higher literature”.

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查尔斯·狄更斯的科学网络

作家兼评论家乔治·亨利·刘易斯有很多要回答的问题。1839年，刘易斯（Lewes）在英国伦敦杜蒂街（Doughty Street）的家中拜访了这位崭露头角的作家查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens），并迅速看了看他的书柜后宣布，狄更斯“完全不在哲学，科学和高级文学作品的范围内”。