Both Uses of
chaos
in
Middlemarch
- The human mind has at no period accepted a moral chaos; and so preposterous a result was not strictly conceivable.†
Chpt 1 *
- This was really an argument for not deferring the marriage too long, as he implied to Mr. Farebrother, one day that the Vicar came to his room with some pond-products which he wanted to examine under a better microscope than his own, and, finding Lydgate's tableful of apparatus and specimens in confusion, said sarcastically— "Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."†
Chpt 4
Definition:
-
(chaos) a state of extreme confusion and disorder