Chapter 15
Lydgate's backstory, his ambition for original research, and the narrator's famous diagnosis of his 'spots of commonness' in taste and judgment of women.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
The young doctor Lydgate arrives in Middlemarch full of scientific ambition to discover the 'primitive tissue' and reform medicine, but is undone by his 'spots of commonness.'
Chapter 18
The hospital chaplaincy vote where Lydgate compromises and votes for Tyke against his conscience.
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