Wintering in the Riviera With Notes of Travel in Italy and France, and Practical Hints to Travellers

I have sometimes thought that if it were possible for a person of mature years now living to return to the world, with memory unimpaired, after a period of five hundred or even of one hundred years hence, how strangely new to him everything would appear! Events succeed each other in these times with such startling rapidity, that he would be a bold man who would venture to predict what even a generation will bring forth. We may speculate on the effects likely to result from agencies now in operation,—as to what, for example, may be the future of Great Britain, looking to the gigantic scale on which hazardous enterprise is carried on; to the contests of labour with capital in which natural laws are set at defiance; to the growth of Ritualism in the English Church; to the penchant which our rulers seem to have for annexing or conquering remote provinces, stern and wild or insalubrious; to a thousand other things which are with more or less force influencing or disquieting our country commercially, socially, or politically,—but none of us can possibly foresee the actual consequences and the condition of things to which they will lead.

• АвторWilliam James Miller
• ВидавництвоProject Gutenberg
• Рік видання2014 р.
• Оригінальна назваWintering in the Riviera With Notes of Travel in Italy and France, and Practical Hints to Travellers
• Тип книгиЕлектронна книга