It is well known that George Eliot's intelligence and her wide knowledge of literature, history, philosophy and religion shaped her fiction, but until now no study has followed the development of her thinking through her whole career. This intellectual biography traces the course of that development from her initial Christian culture, through her loss of faith and working out of a humanistic and cautiously progressive world view, to the thought-provoking achievements of her novels. It focuses on her responses to her reading in her essays, reviews and letters as well as in the historical pictures of Romola, the political implications of Felix Holt, the comprehensive view of English society in Middlemarch, and the visionary account of personal inspiration in Daniel Deronda. This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual is an important addition to our understanding of Eliot's mind and works, as well as of her place in nineteenth-century British culture.

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This solution will be valld when C -C I >_ 1.From Eq. (21) we see that the quantity p L is appreciably influenced by the distance between the holes. If in expansion (7) we include the terms containing ~ to the fourth and higher powers, the boundaries will not be ellipses but hyperelllpses.Let us consider a numerical example. Suppose that in the above rock mass at a depth of 1000 m there is a series of horizontal workings with radius a = 2 m, with their centers spaced 20 m apart. If ~c =750t~ K 0 = 2 tons/m z, P = 10 tons/m 2, ~ --30 ~ n = 2, and X = 0.9, we find that the boundary between the undisturbed region and the zones of inelastic deformations will be an ellipse with semlaxes a = 4.1 m, b = 2.62 m.

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