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Macaulay (search for this): article 1
Whether, on the whole, the world is really advancing, is a question which admits of much being said on both sides. Macaulay's picture of English progress would lead us to decide that question in the affirmative, as far as England is concerned. He tells us, that could England of Charles the Second's reign be set before Englishmen now, they would not know one landscape in a hundred, or one building in ten thousand. She had then but little more than five millions of inhabitants; the annuafor the purpose of hunting freebooters, while there were portions of the metropolis in which the warrant of the Chief Justice could not be executed without the aid of a body of armed men. And yet, may it not be too soon to accept this picture of Macaulay as decisive of the question? There are social anomalies in her civilization which remain to be solved, and which may yet perplex and confound the master spirits of the age. It remains to be seen whether the bulk of her population are always goi
King (search for this): article 1
s about £1,400,000; agriculture was in a rude and imperfect state; St. James's Square was a receptacle for dead cats and dogs; the streets of London were involved in such profound darkness as to make walking dangerous; the roads in the country were bogs and sloughs, in which carriages were often swamped unless they had six horses; sixpence a day was paid the weaver at the loom; children of six years old were thought fit to labor in the clothing trade; meat was so dear that it is estimated by King, that of the 880,000 families of England, 440,000 only ate animal food twice a week, and the remainder ate it not at all, or at most not oftener than once a week; the great mass of the nation lived almost entirely on rye, barley and oats; the paupers and beggars were estimated at 1,330,000 out of a population of 5,550,000, as great as it is at present, with a population four times as large; the rate of deaths in the capital was one in twenty-three, now it is one in forty; men died faster in
Eugene Sue (search for this): article 1
now common to their servants. But if it be contended that these were still good times, morally, socially and intellectually, let us bear in mind some further facts related by our historian.--He tells us, what indeed has ever since been matter of world-wide notoriety, that in those days extravagant licentiousness prevailed, and that woman was morally and intellectually degraded; the profligacy of the English plays, satires, songs and novels, far exceeded the most disgusting productions of Eugene Sue and his obscene disciples; the poets rejoiced to put their loosest and most indecent verses into the mouths of women, to be repeated at the theatres; husbands of station beat their wives without compunction; statesmen, without giving scandal, could easily accumulate princely estates; the most savage intemperance of party spirit prevailed; blood could not flow fast enough to satisfy the thirst for political revenge; Whigs hooted at Tory victims and Tories at Whigs as they passed on to execu
M. Guizot (search for this): article 1
osopher and statesman was: "I do not feel that my experience of man has either disposed me to think worse of them, or indisposed me to serve them; nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, and of the present gloomy aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. On the contrary, I hope; I see glimpses of daylight; I see elements of rescue; I see even now faint dawning of a better day. The truth I take to be this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires are so impatient — the work of progress is so immense, and our means of aiding it so feeble,--the life of humanity is so long, and that of individual man so brief, that what we see is often only the ebb of the advancing wave; and thus discouragement is our inevitable lot. It is only history that teaches us to hope." Let us trust, if we can, that M. Guizot may be right, and that man is not a pendulum, constantly vibrating between the opposite extremes of civilization and barbarism.
Dicman (search for this): article 1
been augmented into a seventy-two-fold ratio. The augmentation of their machinery of public instruction is indicated by the extent of their public libraries, which have increased in a thirty-two fold ratio, and by the creation of school libraries, amounting to 2,000,000 volumes. "They have completed a system of canal navigation which, placed in a continuous link, would extend from London to Calcutta, and a system of railways which, continuously extended, would stretch from London to Van Dicman's Land, and have provided locomotive machinery by which that distance would by traveled over in three weeks, at the cost of one and a half pence per mile. They have created a system of inland navigation, the aggregate tonnage of which is probably not inferior in amount to the collective inland tonnage of all the other countries in the world; and they possess many hundreds of river steamers, which import to the roads of water the marvellous celerity of roads of iron. They have, in fine,
Calcutta (West Bengal, India) (search for this): article 1
t roads, which has been increased thirty-six fold, and the cost of their post-office, which has been augmented into a seventy-two-fold ratio. The augmentation of their machinery of public instruction is indicated by the extent of their public libraries, which have increased in a thirty-two fold ratio, and by the creation of school libraries, amounting to 2,000,000 volumes. "They have completed a system of canal navigation which, placed in a continuous link, would extend from London to Calcutta, and a system of railways which, continuously extended, would stretch from London to Van Dicman's Land, and have provided locomotive machinery by which that distance would by traveled over in three weeks, at the cost of one and a half pence per mile. They have created a system of inland navigation, the aggregate tonnage of which is probably not inferior in amount to the collective inland tonnage of all the other countries in the world; and they possess many hundreds of river steamers, whi
France (France) (search for this): article 1
ne minute, and by which, consequently, an answer of equal length could be sent back to the North Pole in an equal interval." Who can pretend to say that a blight as sudden and dismal as that which has come upon this luxuriant prosperity may not one day throw England centuries back in the march of progress? Yet, there is high authority for a more hopeful view of human affairs. An able Scottish writer informs us that he once asked M.Guizot, who, for many years, was the first minister of France, who had lived through some of the most interesting and troubled periods of human history, who had studied men contemplatively, as well as acted with them and governed them,--what feeling was strongest in his mind as he looked back and looked forward — hope or despondency for his country and the world. The reply of this sagacious philosopher and statesman was: "I do not feel that my experience of man has either disposed me to think worse of them, or indisposed me to serve them; nor, in spit
Judah (search for this): article 2
t. Man may fight from the belligerent instincts of manhood, from ambition and love of excitement, as well as patriotism, but when the mother, gentle and unambitious, gives up her child to the privations and perils of war, it is such a sacrifice of all maternal instincts at the shrine of duty that we can only liken it to the supernatural faith of the patriarch Abraham; and every Southern home, where such a scene has been witnessed, to that Mount Moriah, where, rather than to the long line of Judah's heroes, every son of Israel's looks, as to that which gave birth and immortality to the chosen people of God. No greater miracle has this war presented than the Gentle Doves of our summer land, seemingly only fitted for summer scenes, transformed into eagles,"queens of the cliff and the wave, flapping the wild wing in the winter sky," and teaching their young to battle with the thunder and the storm. Nor is it to their own sons alone that the overflowing devotion of their nature has been
Israel (Israel) (search for this): article 2
lligerent instincts of manhood, from ambition and love of excitement, as well as patriotism, but when the mother, gentle and unambitious, gives up her child to the privations and perils of war, it is such a sacrifice of all maternal instincts at the shrine of duty that we can only liken it to the supernatural faith of the patriarch Abraham; and every Southern home, where such a scene has been witnessed, to that Mount Moriah, where, rather than to the long line of Judah's heroes, every son of Israel's looks, as to that which gave birth and immortality to the chosen people of God. No greater miracle has this war presented than the Gentle Doves of our summer land, seemingly only fitted for summer scenes, transformed into eagles,"queens of the cliff and the wave, flapping the wild wing in the winter sky," and teaching their young to battle with the thunder and the storm. Nor is it to their own sons alone that the overflowing devotion of their nature has been manifested. What house is th
1778 AD (search for this): article 3
e to save the town." However, he relieved his mind of the partial disappointment by going round to the Frith of Forth, and frightening the people of Kirkaldy out of their wits. Pamphlets of his depredations are said to have been as common as almanacs in every house on the British coast. An amusing instance of the terror in which this sea monster was held, is given in a work of a Mr. Henderson, who bad explored the whole of that part of the country which was the scene of Jones's exploits in 1778. An old Presbyterian minister in Kirkaldy, a good old man, but of singular and eccentric habits, was seen, at the time of Jones's threatened descent, making his way through the people, with an old blackout arm-chair, which he lugged down to low-water mark (the tide flowing), and sat down in it. Here he commenced his religious exercises, remarking that here is "a vile pireet coming to rub our folk � Kirkaldy, and goodness knows they're a peur enough already, and has nothing to spare. They ar
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