Victorian Recollections (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Bridges, J. A.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Victorian Recollections The first incentive to writing this book was the slighting way in which people, who very likely know little about the matter, are accustomed to write and talk about the Victorian era, as if everything done during that period by those whom we had been brought up to honour and respect was quite futile and absurd. Probably the same class of people will - if the earth should last so long - in the twenty-first century be disparaging and sneering at the present era, with as much or as little reason. It is perhaps better to be a laudator temporis acti se puero - of which genus I consider myself quite a mild specimen - than to cast an undeserved stigma on one´s ancestors. I have, at any rate, admitted the error of the Victorian statesmen in their neglect of agriculture - fully acquiesced in by our present-century rulers during the fourteen years preceding the War, which would have been ample time, given the necessary inclination and ability, to restore the land to its former prosperity. I should be the last to belittle the immense advance in engineering and other sciences which followed on the introduction of steam. 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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