Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . nce of which is denied by thesubjects of such observation. To-day is inexplicableunless one returns to the time in which these forms,crystallized now into something almost unalterable,were still chaotic, moved by each fresh current, yeteven then sknvly gathering shape and character. The Philadelphia of to-day has settled into a fixedand seemingly unchangeable mould. One passes throughstreet after street of houses so like one another that atlast the belief becomes fixed, that one has only to touchsome central kncj
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . nce of which is denied by thesubjects of such observation. To-day is inexplicableunless one returns to the time in which these forms,crystallized now into something almost unalterable,were still chaotic, moved by each fresh current, yeteven then sknvly gathering shape and character. The Philadelphia of to-day has settled into a fixedand seemingly unchangeable mould. One passes throughstreet after street of houses so like one another that atlast the belief becomes fixed, that one has only to touchsome central kncjb to see each front slide up and revealevery family doing exactly the same thing at the samemoment in the same way. The uniformity is firstamusing, then irritating, then depressing, and is ac-cepted at last as the solution of certain Otherwise unex-plainable characteristics. Monotony long continued hasdeadened perception, mental and spiritual. Progress isunnecessary where every one is perfectly comfortableand convinced that improvement is needless, and thus 172 A STL VAX ail aml)iti«uis and activc-mindiMl man finds it easy to luToiiir iM- : tlu- statutel„M,k >lill h«>l(l> la\v> al>oli> in luarly every otluTpart of the riiinii. and llir nHU-v ..f iuil)lir actionon any point . to a deixive that drives the tewt-ager ivtonner> well to iHadne>s. Nevertheless,reform «;oe^^on. The spirit •f tlie foimd- ^ -^ir^^^ ^^-.^:l^-^. Vei> iM-inam-. ?:^ - ~-^- teney, tlie leaven is there and seeretly to il> dotined end, the .-tory of the pa-t -_iviMi the key to the future. With the «tp« of 17> and fuie oiihard- > iiuinerou> thatpeaches were fe«l to pi-j:>. l*rofrssor Kalni. the Swedishnaturali>t, whoM- *• Travels into Xorth America** arestill of intere-&g
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