{38} Who owns, and rack-rents, some of the vilest slums in London, and
is beautifully æsthetic in private life.
{39a} The French.
{39b} “Vœ victis!” woe to the conquered—the motto of the Gauls in Rome
as of the modern Civilization of Land and Capital.
{44} France.
{45} In Père-la-Chaise, the famous Parisian cemetery, the Communists
made a desperate stand, but were overcome and the captured ones shot.
And Morny’s vaulted tomb was close at hand, and Balzac smiled his animal
cynicism from his bust. Victims, murderer, and commenting Chorus, all
were there.
{46} A part of Paris.
{49} The New Model is the name by which is known that reorganization of
the Roundhead Army, without which Cromwell saw that the Cavaliers could
not be conquered. No one was permitted in its ranks who did not
thoroughly believe in the Cause for which it fought.
{66} This graveyard, one side of a gully, which suddenly expands and
leaves its base large enough for the local race-course, is in summer one
of the loveliest spots on earth. Hindoos, Protestants, Catholics, and
Mahommadan have their separate portions. Here in regimental or
individual tombs are the record of noble lives thrown away in the
iniquity of the English relations with China.
{69a} The Russian tea-urn.
{69b} In China the system of Trades Unions is admirable.—Coolie is the
generic term in the East for labourer.
{70} This is one of the three well-known colossi of Gautama, the Buddha.
The same type of proud patience marks this embodiment of the suffering
East, wherever we meet it.
{76} Dr Moorhouse came out to Melbourne as bishop in the Church of
England there in 1876. He almost immediately took the position of the
leading religious personality in Australia. To a rare geniality he added
the gifts of a “scholar” and a “gentleman,” both real and both as modern
as yet seems permitted to the old caste and religion. He achieved an
influence over men of all denominations, and of none, that was quite
phenomenal, and might have been used for a national object as great as
good. The work of his diocese, however, proving too much for his
strength, he announced the fact, and declared that, unless his bishopric
were divided, he would be compelled to resign it. Shortly afterwards he
accepted the bishopric of Manchester, on the ground that “a larger sphere
of labour had been offered to him unsolicited.” His departure was a sort
of national event.
{79a} Orang-utan.
{79b} The Buddhistic temple in Java, known as the temple of Borobodo.
{80} This explanation of these curious arborial growths is Mr Alfred
Wallace’s (_Malay Archipelago_, chapter v.), and in this matter also we
may perhaps be content to rely on that “innate genius for solving
difficulties” which Darwin has assigned to the illustrious naturalist
whom Socialism is proud to number among her sons.
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