Talks and Tales
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Kendrick, Mrs. Ella B.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Talks and Tales: A Magazine Published by the Conn; Institute and Industrial Home for the Blind; Nos; 334 and 336 Wethersfield Ave;, Hartford, Conn We are in London. The Rome of our day and generation. The heart oi the commercial world. In truth, of all great cities, London is the greatest. It is the most powerful magnet of mental, moral, and material forces man has ever made. Hither arc drawn the most ambitious, active and ingenious of Old England´s offspring; and here arc formed the literary, naval, military and commercial plans that make of London a colossal concentration of vitality, the influence of which extends around the globe. Even its antiquity is impressive; for London is more than two thousand years old. It was a British settlement when Julius Caesar landed near the Dover cliffs; it, subsequently, heard the trumpets of the Roman legions; and the Emperor Claudius tried to rob it of its name; yet only seven hundred years ago, although already thirteen centuries old, it contained less than fifty thousand inhabitants; and five more centuries of growth were needed to raise its population to two hundred thousand. It had not reached a million even at the opening of the nineteenth century; but now, in the amazing hive of human existence, included within the metropolitan Police District of Loudon, more than five and a half million men, women and children feast or starve, achieve or fail, amuse themselves or suffer, till, having played their several parts upon this murky stage, they are replaced by others. There arc more people here than in all the New England States combined, or than in the whole of Switzerland and more than twice as many as in Norway. London contains more Irishmen than Dublin, more Scotchmen than Edinburgh and more Jews than all Palestine. Every four minutes a human soul is added to its population, and at a little longer interval oue disappears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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