Excerpt from Castle Solitude in the Metropolis: A Study in Social Science London is to me the most interesting city in the world, because of the amount of character which seems to have accumulated there as a gift of all the ages. It is this, I take it, which gives the touch of truth to Dr. Johnson's oft-quoted remark to the effect that it is all things to all men; that each individual's conception of it reflects his own nature; that it is a city of banks, or a city of book-shops, or a city of taverns, or a city of horse ...
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Excerpt from Castle Solitude in the Metropolis: A Study in Social Science London is to me the most interesting city in the world, because of the amount of character which seems to have accumulated there as a gift of all the ages. It is this, I take it, which gives the touch of truth to Dr. Johnson's oft-quoted remark to the effect that it is all things to all men; that each individual's conception of it reflects his own nature; that it is a city of banks, or a city of book-shops, or a city of taverns, or a city of horse markets, or a city of theaters, or a city of a hundred other things, according to one's personal point-oi-view. The Modern Babylon is certainly the only inhabited spot in Europe where a man may mind his own business, and iso late himself almost as completely from observation as if in a desert solitude. The fact that it contains more people than the cities of Paris, Berlin, Vienna. 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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