Dickens's London

Dickens was a prodigious walker, and it's true of many people from victorian era. The energy they had is almost unbelievable. On top of that, he was writing whole editions is magazines that he ran. And keeping up a furious correspondence and walking 20, 30, forty miles a day around london,. He wrote against utilitarianism in hard times. This idea that people are units, and that theyareeyare their satisfaction can be quantified by what the original utilitarians call a calculus of felicity. That we're all individuals bouncing off each other in a kind of swirl of brownin motion in the fog and smoke of reality. We're not separate particles