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or their effects by the method of their origin. And 

 the lower the social class we rear and pamper, the 

 more animal and the more haemal will its instincts 

 and its acts become. 



England, then, should beware of that fatal 

 lethargy which rests on the belief that evil and 

 destruction cannot visit a nation that was once — 

 and may yet remain if she so wills it — the greatest 

 of the recorded Ages. Upon the walls of her Temple 

 the inscription of ber doom is being written. Shall 

 it be erased before it is completed, and in its place 

 the motto of viriHty inscribed : " England shall be 

 Fit and Strong ? " If that is the nation's desire, 

 the day of preaching is done, and the hour of deeds 

 has come. For, on the dismembered Empires of the 

 Past, the Warning Angel of Historical Experience 

 stands, pointing the way to England's safety. The 

 admonitions that rise anew from the ruins of Greece, 

 of Rome, and of Venice, bid us desert the road of 

 a too widened Democracy, and turn to that which 

 leads towards a wise, an understanding, and a 

 broadened Oligarchy. 



Never to any country came the opportunity 

 that hes at England's feet to-day. With an Artizan 

 Class unequalled for skill by any rival ; with com- 

 mercial organisers of great resources, subtlety, and 

 boldness of methods ; with a Middle Class eager for 

 enterprise and gifted with productive capacity ; with 

 a Literature studded with gems as precious as any the 

 world contains, and the names of whose poets and 

 prose -writers are honoured in every seat of culture 



