ving Lantern Yard. However, she also illustrates a Silas before the betrayal that drove him out of his town. She explains that in Lantern Yard, Silas had been filled with the movement, mental activity, and close fellowship that artisans incorporated into a narrow religious sect demonstrated. It appears to have been a relatively democratic society because Eliot notes that each member of the community had the right to vote in governmental matters. In such an open-minded society, as opposed to the close-mindedness of Raveloe, everyone thought highly of Silas.
One particular event demonstrates the depth of feeling of which Silas is capable. One day in church he fell into a sort of daze that the townspeople took to mean he had been specially chosen for religious work. Eliot uses Silas' reaction to this daze to demonstrate Silas's honesty and integrity" "A less truthful man than he might have been tempted into the subsequent creation of a vision in the form of resurgent memory; a less sane man
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