![]() ![]() ![]() Tripe is more expensive, properly understood, than the hothouse pine-apple. The loss upon a pound of tripe has been found to be, in the boiling, seven-eights of a fifth more than the loss upon a pound of any other animal substance whatever. ‘Tripe is without an exception the least economical, and the most wasteful article of consumption that the markets of this country can by possibility produce. ![]() Mr Filer, the political economist in The Chimes, drags out ‘tables’ to mislead on every subject: Whether Dickens was nettled by Mill or not, Mill’s laissez faire outlook was his next target when he wrote The Chimes, a sequel to A Christmas Carol, in 1844.ĭisraeli, coming into his own as a politician at this time, coined the phrase ‘lies, damned lies, and statistics’. The reviews were good too, even if the Utilitarian Philosopher John Stuart Mill thought the turkey Scrooge gives to the hungry Cratchits might disturb the Free Market Economy. In 1843 the book, which Dickens carefully embellished to look like a Christmas present, sold out within hours, and has never since been out of print. This analysis is of a paragraph from Charles Dickens’s The Chimes, first published in 1844.Īt the time of writing Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is widely studied at GCSE. ![]()
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