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Excerpt from Amenities of Social Life Trueitisthatwepossessthe electric telegraph, and the spiritual consolations which may be supposed to proceed from a vivid realisation of the great Darwinian doctrine of the Descent of Man, but are we one whit nearer losing the social plagues from which by his education the Roman Emperor was so mercifully delivered? Oh, men and maidens of the Jubilee Year Of Queen Victoria, where are your vaunted progress and culture if you have to confess that the language of the nineteenth, and the language Of the second century with regard to our social life are practically identical? Can we not in our own circles find the duplicates to the Roman Emperor's awful examples? IS the scandal-monger unknown to us is the sophistical rhetorician a being Of a past age? Again, have we not in our midst the man who writes poetry? While the continued and permitted existence Of Arch deacon Farrar and Mr. Swinburne are alone suficient to prove that fine writing is in as flourishing a condition as ever. 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.

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