[69] She died in a lunatic asylum. I have not heard that society ever offered her a public apology for its brutality to her. [70] See _Times_ report, February 28, 1908. [71] Report of the Inspector under the Inebriates Acts for the year 1906. [72] This drinking by women, which means drinking by mothers present, expectant or possible, is rapidly increasing in Great Britain, though almost unknown in our Colonies. It is at the heart that Empires rot. [73] Cd. 4438. Price 4½d. Volume of evidence Cd. 4439. Price 2s. [74] A careful and detailed enquiry by the present writer, published in the _Westminster Gazette_ (Nov. 21, 1908), _Daily Chronicle_, and _Manchester Guardian_, and hitherto unchallenged, showed that, on the most moderate reckoning, alcohol makes 124 widows and orphans in England and Wales every day, or more than 45,000 per annum. [75] _Diseases of Occupation_, by Sir Thomas Oliver. (The New Library of Medicine, 1908.) [76] This chapter contains the substance of the author's Friday evening discourse, entitled “Biology and History,” delivered before the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Ireland, February 14, 1908. The substance of two lectures to the Royal Institution, entitled “Biology and Progress,” and delivered in February, 1907, is also included in the present volume. [77] “It is thus everywhere that foolish Rumour babbles not of what was done, but of what was misdone or undone; and foolish History (ever, more or less, the written epitomised synopsis of Rumour) knows so little that were not as well unknown. Attila invasions, Walter-the-Penniless Crusades, Sicilian Vespers, Thirty-Years' Wars: mere sin and misery; not work, but hindrance of work! For the Earth, all this while, was yearly green and yellow with her kind harvests; the hand of the craftsman, the mind of the thinker rested not: and so, after all, and in spite of all, we have this so glorious high-domed blossoming World; concerning which, poor History may well ask, with wonder, Whence _it_ came? She knows so little of it, knows so much of what obstructed it, what would have rendered it impossible. Such, nevertheless, by necessity or foolish choice, is her rule and practice; whereby that paradox, ‘Happy the people whose annals are vacant,’ is not without its true side.”--Carlyle, _French Revolution_. “In a little while it would come to be felt that the true history of a nation was indeed not of its wars but of its households.”--Ruskin, _Time and Tide_. [78] “Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.”--William Godwin. [79] See the Author's paper, “The Essential Factor of Progress,” published in the _Monthly Review_, April, 1906.