This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... nation at large appeared a new moral enthusiasm which, rigid and pedantic as it often seemed, was still healthy in its social tone, and whose power was seen in the disappearance of profligacy, which had disgraced the upper classes, and the foulness, which had infested literature ever since the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... nation at large appeared a new moral enthusiasm which, rigid and pedantic as it often seemed, was still healthy in its social tone, and whose power was seen in the disappearance of profligacy, which had disgraced the upper classes, and the foulness, which had infested literature ever since the Restoration. But the noblest result of the religious revival was the steady attempt which has never ceased from that day to this to remedy the guilt, the ignorance, the physical suffering, the social degradation, of the profligate and the poor. It was not till the Wesleyan movement had done its work that the philanthropic movement began. The Sunday-schools established by Mr. Raik.es of Gloucester at the close of the century, were the beginnings of popular education. By writings and by her own personal example, Hannah More drew the sympathy of England to the poverty and crime of the agricultural labourer. The .passionate impulse of human sympathy with the wronged and afflicted raised hospitals, endowed charities, built churches, sent missionaries to the heathen, supported Burke in his plea for the Hindoo, and Clarkson and VVilberforce in their crusade against the iniquity of the slave trade." This calm estimate of a most impartial historian is not one whit more than is due to the great religious revival of the last century, starting among the working-classes of this country, and spreading to America and the Continent. In the great industrial struggle that was to follow, in the generous answer to the efforts of such men as Lord Shaftesbury, Carlyle, Kingsley, in all the burning passion for right and justice, for pity and generosity which has marked this century, there must never be forgotten the fact, that England was sunk in almost selfish death...
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