Excerpt from Impressions of England: O, R Sketches of English Scenery and Society He desires also to confess another purpose, in preparing and publishing this little work. He has aimed to present, prominently, to his readers, the distinguishing and char acteristic merits of English civilization. Innumerable causes are now at work to debase the morals of our own countrymen. With the contemporaries of Washington, that high social refinement which was kept up amid all the evils of our colonial position, has well-nigh passed ...
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Excerpt from Impressions of England: O, R Sketches of English Scenery and Society He desires also to confess another purpose, in preparing and publishing this little work. He has aimed to present, prominently, to his readers, the distinguishing and char acteristic merits of English civilization. Innumerable causes are now at work to debase the morals of our own countrymen. With the contemporaries of Washington, that high social refinement which was kept up amid all the evils of our colonial position, has well-nigh passed away. The dignity of personal bearing, the careful civil ity of intercourse, and the delicate sense of propriety which characterized the times of our grandfathers, have disap peered. The vulgarizing influences of a dissocial sectari anism are beginning to be perceived. The degrading effects of sudden wealth; the corruptions bred of luxury the evils of a' vast and mongrel immigration; and not least, the vices communicated to our youth, by contact with the Mexican and half-spanish populations contiguous to our southern frontier all these corrosive elements are operating among us with a frightful and rapid result. The contrast with such tendencies, of the sober and compara tively healthful progress of society in our ancestral land, the writer supposes, cannot but be acceptable at least to those of his countrymen who deprecate this deterioration, and who, for themselves and their families, are anxious to cultivate an acquaintance with those domestic, educational and religious institutions which have given to England her moral power and dignity among the nations of the civilized world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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