Show what dickens thought about christmas christmas time that man must be a misanthrope indeed in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not aroused in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened by the recurrence of christmas who can be insensible to the outpourings pou rings of good feeling and the honest interchange of affectionate attachment which abound at this season of the year A christmas family party we know nothing in nature more delightful there seems a magic in the very name of christmas petty jealousies and discords are forgotten social feelings are awakened in bosoms to which they have long been strangers father and son or brother and sister who have met and passed with averted gaze or a look of cold recognition rec ignition tion for months before proffer and return the cordial embrace and bury their past animosities in their present happiness ki kindly nd ay hearts th that at have yearned ward toward to each other but have been withheld by false notions of pride and self dignity are again reunited and all is kindness and benevolence would that christmas lasted the whole year through as it ought and that the prejudices prejudice pre judic es and a nd passions which deform our better nature were never called into action among those to whom the they Y should ever be strangers CHARLES DICKENS |