These words, taken from the final pages of Middlemarch, have a real resonance for me. Amid all the upheaval of the Victorian period, George Eliot illuminated the importance of community, empathy and connection; she knew, far better than most, that society only works when people care about each other. Caring has been and always will be critical to our society. It sustains our humanity and compassion, enables people to live their lives in the fullest and most dignified way possible and eases the... Read this story