Party government indeed means nothing better than party trickery to those who furnish the entire wealth of the country. Tories and Liberals only vie with one another as to which shall most dexterously shelve the pressing social questions of our time. We look for no improvement whatever under the existing Parliamentary system.......
Tag: 1884CE
The Coming Slavery-Herbert Spencer-1884
If the meaning of the word "we" be so expanded as to include with ourselves our ancestors, and especially our ancestral legislators, I agree. I admit that those who made, and modified, and administered, the old poor-law, were responsible for producing an appalling amount of demoralization, which it will take more than one generation to remove.
Exorcism against Satan and apostate angels-Pope Leo XIII-1884
Most glorious Prince of the celestial militias, Archangel St. Michael, defend us in the battle and in the fight against the principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness and against the evil spirits of the celestial areas. Come to the aid of men, created by God for immortality and made in his image and likeness and redeemed at great cost from the tyranny of the devil.
Industrial Revolution in England – Arnold Toynbee -1884
The subject of these lectures is the industrial and Agrarian
Revolution at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the
nineteenth centuries. The course is divided into three parts. The
first deals with Adam Smith and the England of his time.