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Excerpt from Letters of a Traveller
The principal characteristic of this period of transition, which has swallowed up one generation, and in which we are still dragging our weary way, whilst it is gnawing into the heart of the youth of the present time, is not, whatever may have been said, the want of poetry, there is too much sorrow, too much of presenti ment in the world, for this to be true. Neither is it the want of individual courage. Never, perhaps, since many centuries, has martyrdom been braved with more stoicism in Europe. Neither is it the power of high thought which is wanting -the last fifty years have seen historical intelligence, the closest analysis of social phenomena, scientific observation and philosophical in tuition attain a degree of power which few of our ancestors could even have conceived. The cause of the evils of to day.
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