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    * 100 MANNEES AND MOBA&S.

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    XIX.—MANNERS AND MOBALrS.

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    - - And prompt me " , Hence plain and , ...

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    " Sir, Your Most Dear Daughters." " I Pr...

    : ' . I was leaning next over the form of my insensible daughter . They had carried her to a distant chamberhigh up , where no cry

    , could reach her . , _" She is coming to , " said the nurse . t .

    Yes , she was reviving , I saw her lips move . ; " What's that she ' s saying ? " asked the other woman .

    " Poor thing , " answered the nurse , " she ' s wandering , her senses is

    quite gone . " Alas ! alas ! she was not wandering . I had heard the words , ——

    " Nabonassar was the eon of Pul , and Higgins was a noble Roman . "

    ( To he continued . _}

    * 100 Mannees And Moba&S.

    * 100 _MANNEES AND MOBA _& S .

    Xix.—Manners And Mobalrs.

    XIX . —MANNERS AND _MOBALrS .

    - - And Prompt Me " , Hence Plain And , ...

    - - And prompt me " , Hence plain and , bashful holy innocence cunning The Tempest ! !" .

    There are two opposite theories with , regard to the effect of increasing civilization on morality . One tells us that an age

    of silver succeeds to that of gold , an age of brass to that of silver ; and thatas men advance in knowledge—learning to sow seedto

    , , build huts , to place landmarks , to forge iron , to launch ships—so , in succession , god after god leaves the uncongenial earth , until

    Asteea , ultima ccelestum , retreats to the stars . The happy and virtuous savage of Rousseau beckons us back to the state of primeval

    nature . " Tout est bien , sortantdes mains de _l'Auteurdes choses : -tout d _^ genere entre les mains de _l'homme . "

    The other theory , that morality increases as civilization increases _* and that progress in knowledge inseparably brings with it progress

    in morals , is the theory now prevalent , and one which it would require a bold man to contradict .

    The discoveries of the last half-century have been so many and so great—the stride onward we have made has been so gigantic ,

    that we are disposed to ascribe to ourselves wings ; or some other such superhuman organs of power ; andassuming that our future

    advance must be in proportionate progression , , to grasp already at problems whose solution lies out of the domain of mortal acquire < -

    inent . We begin to think that the plucking from the Tree of Knowledge and the building of Babel ended disastrously , solely

    because they were essayed before their due time ; being , in fact , _Reserved for our accomplishment .

    However good and great a thing civilization may be , yet its

    advance is constantly giving birth to new and complex questions ;

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/28/