The common mind means the mind of all the artists and heroes, or else it would not be common. Plato had the common mind; Dante had the common mind, Commonners means the quality common to the Saint and the sinner, to the philosopher and the fool; and it was this that Charles Dickens grasped and developed.
In everybody there is a certain thing that loves babies, that fears death, that likes sunlight: that thing enjoys Dickens. Everybody in this case does not mean uneducated crowds; everybody means everybody.
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