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$66 FROM PARIS, .
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The degree to which Nature and her influences are exiled from London is a fearful item in our sum of difficulties . Not that I
entergood tain hysicall any ; but superstiti and the morall total ous absence belief almost that of a them total green failure makes field . s the make What rear grown can ing the of -up children mi peop ssion le - ,
p what ary , the they y clergyman are in form , pr y , , size the , priest and number do in our ; a great courts deal while for they individuals remain
and for families , but in the mass next to nothing . It is a curious fact number that of in London bad a le bad but nei of ghbourhood bad houses is . not I composed have been of told a given b y
regular missionaries peop that _, the population is floating to an inconceivable degreeEvery fresh season washes in a wave of misery and vice
. , which It seems is presentl as if the y washed low courts out and again noisy and public makes -houses room for became another im- .
pregnated with a moral fever , and nothing can really be done to _Eradicate it until they are pulled down . The immediate effect of the
demolitions consequent on the cutting of New Oxford Street was to cause the erection of the wretched suburb known as Agar Town ;
but that suburb is neither so dense nor so vicious as the neighbourhood whose lace it lied . Who does not remember the fable of
the bundle p of faggots supp ? The moment a low population is spread over a larger surface it becomes penetrable , it is possible to plant
distinct centres of moral and religious action ; the playground , the schooland the church . It is like a hard complicated knot which
nobody , can untie , so long as it is twisted together in its own wretchedness ; loosen it , and the ends of the separate threads make their
appearance , which a wise hand may succeed in wholly disentangling one by one . I often wonder how it is that London has been allowed
to grow to the size and shape it has done , without our rulers being in of the a great ( who least moral alread aware evil that stagger . they Nobod along were y must tacitl in history y throw allowing under the blame the so stealth heavy on the y a growth load middle of
ages , y ill of -repute our low , merited neihbourhoods or not , ) for west in of the St . rei M gn artin of ' s Elizab Lane eth and every north one of
Holborn was unbuilt g , and . St . Giles's stretched into the fields . There were then worse drainage and sharper laguesfamine , battle ,
murder , and sudden deaths ; but not our p particular , form of modern horror . Again , leave London alone , and reflect that in 1760 ,
Liverpool was a picturesque town with a church and a castle on the banks of the Merseyand that Manchester has doubled and quadrupled in
the same time , ; without any one , until quite lately , troubling themselves to reflect that the former has been suffered to become the
unhealthiest town in the kingdom , and that the population of Manchester is a pale dwindling race .
But I never walk through Paris , beautiful and ornate as is the citof to-daywithout feeling that there is also a tendency to
agglomerate y labor , , faint and undefined as yet , but springing from the
commercial spirit of the age , which it shares in common with Eng-
$66 From Paris, .
$ 66 FROM PARIS , .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/50/
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