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No pictures, no unfamiliar animals, no rare plants or flowers, no natural or artificial wonders of the ancient world--all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. (28)
According to T. W. Hill, "this reference may be specifically to the images from Easter Island which, when Dickens was writing Little Dorrit, had recently been added to the National Collection" (197).
I think we also catch an oblique glimpse of these same idols in Hard Times, Little Dorrit's predecessor, for their proto-Cubist lines seem to have inspired his conception of Mr. Gradgrind. There Dickens presents his foursquare, stony figure as the emanation of milieu...
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