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to all whitewash the babies , every once a cottage week , , and to remove lay a ruinous every heap tax on of perambulators mamire , _wasls . ht
the We and rebuild old suppose streets every that and dirt the grand y ruling French old powers hamlet hdtels at , of the the eas Tuileries il moyen y as they -age mi have to g construct levelled destroy
the wide airy Rue de Kivoli , which has murdered half the historical memories of Paris
. But we have no bureaucratic centres of influence in London , from whenceas from Paris , electric commands can be enforced in our
doms counties provincial and , possess it departments is not a toug beyond h . vitality Our the memory many of their -sized of own two and ; generations they many are -sided little , that Eng king lish the
their count , y fortified towns , eminences the dear p miniature , icturesque or placidl irregular y reposing italswhere county amid the towns the meadows , crowning of le
each lilied riverwere cap , great peop came and perils to spend of a the journey , winter to in London their " deterred town houses them , " from when metropolitan the length the has
have as soj yet ourn boards onl . y And partiall of various even y modified the sorts rapid and this extension sizes individuality located of in . railway London It is true system , and that sup we
same posed boards to be hi are ghl known y efficacious to utter , from melanchol Cornwall y comp to Caithness laints of ; the but oppor these of town
sition they meet with from the local magnates every , nay of every hamlet . The ratepayers schools of each of parish are district many-tongued under
the school and strongest sometimes committee local many when influence -fisted the inspector ; , the and it is is coining worth every down while , to to get listen are a notion to a round the feet of that
of the internal currents which ebb and flow patient misfortune But must public we ? man regret Shall . we the desire innumerable that our local country centres should of Eng be reduced land as
a to a vast net-work of mechanical civilisation ? Is Prussia , or Austriaor Franceto be in this respect the object of our ordinary
government emulation , ? is A the deep very , inbred essence princi of Ang p lo le -Saxon of local life . activity It is the and leg self acy
nourishe of Alfred s , all and that partl is manl y an inheritance and earnest from in our our national early church charact . er It ; y
don it prevents and Birming to ham York and and Liverpool Norwich from the , being beautiful enslave impress d to Lon of a - preserves
b poetry ygone , of time a . great It cherishes people ; it those embalms traditions , as it which were , are those the peculiar truest it
dialects which are a testimony to our rich and various blood ; cherishe pable of s the erving story their of every country hill with and dale the ; best and energ it trains ies of up freemen men ca- ,
s proximation in Yet a political there to is organisation a another democracy side which which to this is the rap icture world idly " of becoming has Eng ever land the seen . truest All . these app
-local centres are not wholly disunited one from the other ; they are
116 Local Sanitaky Associations-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/44/
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