Excerpt from The International Review, 1881, Vol. 10 The difference, so far as buildings are concerned, between the rela tions Of the two classes of schools to the State 18 very Simple: down to 1870 the denominational schools had building grants; Since 1870 the common schools, which were created by the act of that year, have had building loans on favorable terms from the Public Works Loan Commissioners. 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.
Excerpt from The International Review, Vol. 11: 1881 Some thirty years ago a European diplomatist, who expressed the hope that henceforth the ocean would forever remain free, received from an American statesman the proud answer, "Yes, with our leave!" Horace Greeley, in the "Tribune," sharply rebuked his countryman, not only because such a vainglorious boast would under all circumstances be in bad taste, but principally because it should never become the ambition of the United States, by powder and cannon, to gain and maintain a predominating position among the great powers of the earth. He lived to see the time when this., nation of farmers, artisans, shopkeepers, and merchants, who in the opinion of most Europeans knew no higher God than the almighty dollar, waged a war the like of which could not be found in the whole history of mankind; and the present generation witnesses the awakening of Europe to the dire fact that this young upstart among the civilized nations of the world is wielding arms in comparison with which all the swords, guns, and cannon of the Civil War were but harmless toys. After all, Greeley was right. The exploits of the United States in the art of destroying, systematically and on the grandest scale, have been so great that the most warlike nations of Europe would not hastily engage with them in a trial of strength, if by some miracle they could be transformed into next-door neighbors. But the strength they begin to manifest in the art of building up and creating is so huge, and develops at such a rate, that the eyes of all the powers of Europe - even Russia in some respects not excepted - are becoming riveted on them in a kind of awe-stricken bewilderment. 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.
Excerpt from The International Review, Vol. 11: July, 1881 The amount of facts with which science is encumbered is an actual impediment to her progress. The scientific mind seems affected with a mania for experiment and investigation. Too many are searching after facts, and too few are trying to think these facts into system. The earth has been dug up, the heavens studied, all Nature lavished in the incessant search after something new; and the result is an immense accumulation of facts which no mind has yet been able to grasp in their entirety. Specialists have indeed mastered their respec tive branches, and by their contributions to knowledge have placed mankind under a debt of gratitude to themselves; but no intellect has yet arisen capable of generalizing this immense mass of hetero geneous knowledge into one complete and harmonious system of truth. To make such a generalization would indeed be the peculiar preroga tive of the highest type of mind and it may well be doubted if at pres ent there exists a mind capable of such a work. If such a mind does exist, it belongs to Herbert Spencer. But Mr. Spencer has labored under the disadvantage of living at the time when these discoveries were being made, and these facts in process of accumulation; and it may well be questioned whether it is within the power of the human mind not to be confused by this infinite variety of evidence, and the rapidity with which it has multiplied. When the fever of experiment and investigation is ended, then those earnest and laborious seekers after truth, who after all are the only real benefactors of mankind, will sit down to the task of systematizing these facts, and culling out and rejecting whatever is false in this evidence; and when this is done, we do not doubt that there will appear a mind that will weld this knowledge together into a system of philosophy which will ap proach infinitely nearer the truth than philosophy has ever done before. 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.
Excerpt from The Contemporary Review, Vol. 39: January-June, 1881 The denial of what is called The Supernatural is the same doc trine in another form. The connection may not be evident at first sight, but it arises from the fact that the human mind is really the type of the Supernatural. It would be well if this word were altogether banished from our vocabulary. It assumes that we know all that N stare contains, and that we can pronounce with certainty on what can and what cannot be found there. Or else it assumes that Nature is limited to purely physical agencies, and that our own mind is a power and agency wholly separate and distinct from these. There might indeed he no harm in this limitation of the word if it could be cousis tently adhered to in all the terms of any argument involving its use. We are all quite accustomed to think of Man as not belonging to Nature at all - as the one thing or Being which is contradistinguished from Nature. This is implied in the commonest use of language, as when we contrast the works of Man with the works of Nature. The same idea is almost unconsciously involved in language which is intended to be strictly philosophical, and in the most careful utterances of our most distinguished scientific men. Thus Professor Tyndall, in his Belfut address to the British Association, uses these words: Our earliest historic ancestors fell back also upon experience, but with this difference, that the particular experiences which furnished the weft and woof Of their theories were drawn, not from the study of Nature, but from what lay much closer to them - the observation of men. Here Man is especially contradistingnished from Nature; and accordingly we find in the next sentence that this idea is connected with the error of seeing ourselves - that is, the Supernatural in Nature. Their theories, the Professor goes on to say, accordingly took an anthropomorphic form. Further on, in the same addrm, the same antithesis is still more dis tinctly expressed, thus; If Mr. Darwin rejects the notion of creative power acting after human fashion, it certainly is not because he is unacquainted with the nnmherless exquisite adaptations on which the notions of a supernatural artificer is founded. Here we see that the idea of acting after human fashion is treated as synonymous with the idea of a supernatural artificer; and the same identification may be observed running throughout the language which is commonly employed to condemn Anthropomorphism and the Supernatural. 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.
Excerpt from The International Review, 1876, Vol. 3 Political institutions are on a par with the moral and intellectual status. Every month or SO the Sultan changes his cabinet, to please the caprice of one of his Wives, to suit the taste of his eunuchs, or in obedience to the behests of the foreign ambassadors, and the padishah's advisers fly in and out of office, like pigeons in a dove-cote. The new ministers forthwith appoint a new set of provincial governors, who hasten to procure a fresh staff of tax-gatherers-the only species of working officials thought worth their bread in that' practical country and the machinery set up is immediately put in motion to utilize the precious time. In a month it is all over with Pasha this, and Pasha that, steps in to renew the old tragedy under a new name. What with government taxes, official exactions, and ground-rent to be paid to Turkish land-owners, no Christian peasant has more than enough to. 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.
Excerpt from The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, 1881, Vol. 52 A more remarkable occurrence was the premier's startling relapse on Thursday from the conciliatory position which may have been suggested by the division on Mr. Heneage's amendment. However this may be, the facilities which the Government sought were, as has been said, granted to it with hardly any hesitation. The woes of private members in consequence of this complaisance have been more than sufficiently bewailed. Actually, counts out on Tuesday and Fridaymight have been the rule, except when, as on Friday week, it suited the purpose of the Government to make the private member a stalking horse for their own ends. The postponement of the Transvaal debate is so obviously to the advantage of the Ministry that they cannot be blamed for utilizing the presumed necessity of the Land Bill to lengthen it at their pleasure. A question has been raised which is at once natural and innocent (two words which in different forms of dialectic English have an identical con notation) as to the reasons which induce Parliament to put itself to these extraordinary pains in order to secure the passing of a measure which, if members voted un trammelled, would probably have been rejected on the second reading by an immense majority. The Circular (now in print and undeniable) of the National Liberal Federation explains part of the difficulty; the patriotism and statesmanship which still distinguish some members of the Parliament of Great Britain explain the rest. The fear of the Hundreds, and possibly some lingering remnants of the intoxication of the General Election, assure Mr. Gladstone of a certain majority from among his own followers. The knowledge of the state of things which his misgovernment has brought about in Ireland prevents his opponents from opposing the measure as obstinately as they might otherwise be inclined to do. 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.
Excerpt from The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, 1881, Vol. 51 CR England, and for a large part of the civilized world, the New Year starts with a fair promise of commercial prosperity. Russia is crippled with debt and embarrassed with famine, and the trade of India and China is still inactive. But in the three chief centres of commercial activity - the United States, France, and England - there is an obvious increase of prosperity, and of prosperity that is solid and based on the only ground that makes prosperity solid, the application of an abundant capital to the production of what is really wanted. How abundant capital is has been clearly shown in the closing months of the year that has passed by the great rise in the price of existing safe securities, and by the low rate at which sound borrowers, like Liverpool and India, have been able to get money. Although most of our great in dustries have been reviving, they have been reviving slowly, and no new capital has been required for them. Nor is it likely that the New Year will see any great in flation of prices. There is, of course, always the home market, and general prosperity at home keeps up the prices of all things needed here. But the great days of English inflation were days in which we got outsiders to take our goods at high prices in consideration of our lending them the money to pay us with. We still retain almost a monopoly of the carrying trade of the world. 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.
Excerpt from The Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. 10: Published in August and October, 1832 To enlighten this principle of reverence for the great, to teach us reverence, and whom we are to revere and admire, should ever be a chief aim of Education (indeed it is herein that instruction properly both begins and ends); and in these late ages, perhaps more than ever, so indispensable is now our need of clear rever ence, so inexpressibly poor our supply. Clear reverence! It was once responded to a seeker of light: all want it, perhaps thou thyself. What wretched idols, of Leeds cloth, stuffed out with bran of one kind or other, do men either worship, or being tired of worshipping (so expensively without fruit), read in pieces and kick out of doors, amid loud shouting and crowing, what they call tremendous cheers, as if the feat were miraculous! In private life, asin public, delusion in this sort does its work; the blind leading the blind, both fall into the ditch. 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.
