Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and ConductCorelli, Marie
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Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct
Corelli, Marie
English essays -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
It follows very plainly that if we truly loved one another there would
be no wars, no envyings, no racial hatreds, no over-reaching of our
brethren for either wealth, place or power. There would be no such
hells as the Lancashire factories, for example, where, as Allen Clarke
graphically tells us,[2] “Amidst that sickening jerry-jumble of cheap
bricks and cheaper British industry, over a hundred thousand men,
women and children, toil and exist, sweating in the vast, hot, stuffy
mills and sweltering forges--going, when young, to the smut-surrounded
schools to improve their minds, and trying to commune with the living
God in the dreary, dead, besmirched churches and grimy puritanical
chapels; growing up stunted, breeding thoughtlessly, dying prematurely,
knowing not, nor dreaming, except for here and there a solitary one
cursed with keen sight and sensitive soul, of aught better and brighter
than this sickening, steaming sphere of slime and sorrow.” Contrast
this picture with a crowded “supper-night” at the Carlton or any other
fashionable Feeding-place of London, and then maintain, if you dare,
that the men and women who are responsible for two such differing sides
of life are “Christians”!
England is, we are told, in danger of becoming “Romanized.” Priests
and nuns of various “orders” who have been thrust out of France and
Spain for intermeddling, are seeking refuge here, in company with the
organ-grinders and other folk who have been found unnecessary in their
own countries. From Paris official news was cabled on September 11,
1902, as follows:--
“JESUIT EXODUS FROM FRANCE.
“PARIS, _Wednesday, September 11_.
“It is announced officially that by the 1st of next month
not a single Jesuit will be left in France. Most of them
are emigrating to England, and will make Canterbury their
headquarters.--DALZIEL.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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