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Excerpt from London Pride and London Shame IN attempting to delineate certain aspects of the life of London, and phases connected with that life, I have dealt directly with several peculiarly distressing subjects. Upon these I should prefer to refrain from moralising. It is not my business to moralise. But, ifi mayjudge by previous experience, it is sometimes expected of him who diagnoses the disease that he should prescribe the remedy. Some years ago, I wrote a series of articles treating of the condition of the poor in this country. They were first published in The Standard, and afterwards collected in a book, under the title of The Canker at the Heart. Their imme diate result - so far as the author was concerned - was that I received many letters from excellent persons asking me what ought to be done and very often these good people sent me various sums of money to spend as I thought fit upon the relief of distress. Some were kind enough to call upon me. I fear that they went away disappointed, for I had no saving universal panacea to give them. Is it there fore my fault that nothing has been done? A year or so afterwards, I wrote another series of articles, which dealt with the state of this country with regard to preparation for war and the effects of war upon all classes of society. These also were first published in The Standard, and afterwards col lected in a book; and the title was The Defenceless Islands. Their immediate result was - nothing. My publisher sadly informs me from time to time that no one will buy the book. Sensitive as English people are to the pathetic, they were (and are) wholly insensitive to an array of facts which really represent one of the most dangerous consequences of that state of things which (to be honest, the title was presented to me by a friend) I have called The Canker at the Heart. People do not believe that these islands are in any degree defenceless, and therefore the effects upon the population of a hypothetical war do not interest them. Therefore they did not ask me what, in my View, ought to be done. Iwas inclined to regret this circumstance, because in the case of the Defenceless Islands, I could have told them. How ever, they did not want to know; and, as in the other case, nothing has been done - less than nothing, in fact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Release date Australia
February 7th, 2019
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
illustrations
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Pages
224
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x12
ISBN-13
9781331459187
Product ID
23213882

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