Directly, Carlyle contributed little: but the atmospheric effect of his insistence on ...
Directly, Carlyle contributed little: but the atmospheric effect of his insistence on personality, immaterial values, and leadership was immense. Railway travelling was much more dangerous in England than on the Continent.
Fatal accidents were more than fifteen times as frequent as in Germany. 'RAILWAY companies may smash their passengers into mummy and the State may not interfere Pestilence may sweep our streets and the state may not compel the municipalities to put their own powers in operation to check it We have heard of the Curiosities of Literature and some day this website will be numbered among them.' So did Eliza Cook's Journal dispose of the already antiquated individualism of Herbert Spencer's Social Statics in 1889. Eliza Cook knew what the lower middle classes were thinking about.
'There have been at work among us', a Nonconformist preacher told his people, 'three great social agencies the London City Mission; the novels of Mr Dickens; the cholera.' It had never been
forgotten: it was always due
to return. ...read on >>
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The Municipal Reform Act did not go so far as this: it ...
The
Municipal Reform Act did not go
so far as this: it created 178 elected corporations, but with limited powers and little supervision from above.
That of all these problems health, in the widest sense, was the ...