Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . h is going ; and as we areaccustomed to the first, we are poorly placed to judge or enjoy the latter. There never was an epoch when the struggle for existence was fiercer andwhen earthly possessions were more keenly prized. But despite the manysurvivals which still point to a semi-barbaric inheri
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . h is going ; and as we areaccustomed to the first, we are poorly placed to judge or enjoy the latter. There never was an epoch when the struggle for existence was fiercer andwhen earthly possessions were more keenly prized. But despite the manysurvivals which still point to a semi-barbaric inheritance of selfishnessdescended through millenniums, a decided moral gain may, on the whole, beplaced to the credit of our era. With the decrease of the sum total ofignorance, not only among the lower but among the upper classes, the sumtotal of well-doing and well-being has immeasurably increased. The sympathy for suffering is more widespread than it has ever been. ]STomiddle-aged person can fail to note the rapid change which has taken placein the public mind with regard to the general treatment not only of children,but of animals. The present mode of dealing with school children accordingto their individual capacity, the trust in their honor which governs their THE CENTURYS MORAL PROGRESS 269. I UTAIN A :1-; I > DKEYFUS relation to the teacher, the absence of any corporal punishment, form a recentdeparture in education well calculated to produce the besl moral results. The improvement of modern methods in relief work as well as in thetreatment of vice—now viewed morein the light of a pathological conditionthan in that of a sin —must make thisa memorable epoch in the ethical his-tory of humanity. No branch of civili-zation has undergone greater change inmodern times both in theory and prac-tice than public and private the humanitarian endeavors tolift up the fallen and the needy, andalmsgiving on the part of the well-to-do is fast becoming relegated t
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