The Dublin Review, Vol. 15 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 15 Mr. Greenwood´s is a very valuable book, because he knows London intimately, without having lost by familiarity his sense of that utter horror which its social and moral condition must surely excite in any man when he first becomes acquainted with it. This value can hardly be exaggerated. Nothing is so necessary as to impress upon every well-meaning man and woman in England what the real state of English society is. We are living over a volcano. It is impossible to believe that such a state of things can be permanent. The lifeblood of our country is tainted by a deadly disease; how long it may retain possession without being fatal who can say. This is merely the natural view of the case. But the true view is not the natural but the supernatural; for, whatever things may appear, they really are, what they are in the eyes of God, and nothing else. The truly momentous question therefore is, whether His blessing will permanently rest upon a nation in which a social system, such as Mr. Greenwood exposes, is allowed to go on unchecked; and, whether the social and moral condition of London must not bring down judgment upon us, even if we were as yet unable to trace, upon merely natural principles, the danger which it involves. Our author enters at once upon his subject. The first of the seven curses of London is its "neglected children," and the first words of his book (which begins without Preface or explanation) are these. It is a startling fact, that in England and Wales alone at the present time, the number of children under the age of sixteen, dependent more or less upon the parochial authorities for maintenance, amounts to three hundred and fifty thousand. 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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