# Household Words, No. 12, June 15, 1850

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78155

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+Words%2C+No.+12%2C+June+15%2C+1850+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Magician in “Aladdin” may possibly have neglected the study of men, for the study of alchemical books; but it is certain that in spite of his profession he was no conjuror. He knew nothing of human nature, or the everlasting set of the current of human affairs. If, when he fraudulently sought to obtain possession of the wonderful Lamp, and went up and down, disguised, before the flying-palace, crying New Lamps for Old ones, he had reversed his cry, and made it Old Lamps for New ones, he would have been so far before his time as to have projected himself into the nineteenth century of our Christian Era.

## Chapters

- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-12-june-15-1850-78155/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-12-june-15-1850-78155/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-12-june-15-1850-78155/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-12-june-15-1850-78155/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-12-june-15-1850-78155/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-12-june-15-1850-78155/chapters/6/index.md)