Throughout these works, “intelligence” emerges in multiple senses: it is at times purely cognitive, as when Susan Glaspell quips, “What have we got intelligence for?” [1], and at other times moral or spiritual, such as the Mahabharata’s praise of one who surpasses all in “sacrifices, charity, and intelligence” [2]. Authors frequently link intelligence to practical judgment—John Dewey regards it as “the very artery of ... rendering one experience available for guidance of another” [3], while Rousseau insists that to develop intelligence, one must also develop the very strength it is meant to govern [4]. Other texts use “intelligence” to mean “news” or “information,” as when a character says, “I am obliged to you, count, for this pleasing intelligence!” [5] or when Dickens’s Mrs. Gardiner inquires about “the mode of her intelligence” [6]. Across all these instances, intelligence becomes both an intellectual faculty and a form of resourcefulness or information-sharing, hinting at its richly varied role in literary contexts.