As has already been set forth, Mr. Abbey made a monumental financial fiasco; but his was a heroic effort to galvanize Italian opera, which seemed moribund, into vitality.
A few spasmodic efforts togalvanize the corpse into the semblance of life were made, but in vain; the Angelo Grand Italian Opera Company was dead.
In the last sentence Dickens reveals the true philosophy of sustaining and developing natural and therefore productive interest, and explains how, after destroying it, teachers try to galvanize it into spasmodic activity.
Teachers kill the natural interest, and then try to galvanize its dead body into temporary activity.
No; but cease to galvanize that passion," he answered.
The Rabbis engrossed in the hypocritical endeavor to galvanize the corpse of Judaism into a vitality that shall last at least their own lifetime, have neither time nor thought for the great labor question.
Each knows in his heart that it is dead; and the only one who wishes to galvanize it into simulated life is the one who will somehow benefit by the discomfort and abasement of the other.
Of what use then, to try to galvanize the dead past into the semblance of vitality?
What they actually accomplished was to purge and purify its life, to stir it to still greater depths, to galvanize its soul, to prune its institutions, and cement its unity.
These challenging criticisms, whether or not dictated by malice, cannot but serve to galvanize the souls of its ardent supporters, and to consolidate the ranks of its faithful promoters.
James Tapster looked rather out of it all; he looked his apathetic, sulky self--a man whom nothing would ever galvanize into real good-fellowship.
