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...matter what I said about differences as well as similarities -would interpret my remarks as a prediction that we will be overrun by barbarians. Nor will I venture comparisons with historic periods in the American past. If I should so much as mention the year 1814, for example, I daresay there would be some to accuse me of advocating that the city of Washington be put to the torch again...
...hand, attracted scientists and philosophers. Charles Darwin was passionately involved, even though his own theory of the survival of the fittest had been bor rowed by the imperialists. Darwin was joined by John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Charles Lyell. Thomas Henry Huxley was moved to sardonic eloquence: "I daresay Eyre did all this with the best of motives, and in a heroic vein. But if English law will not declare that heroes have no more right to kill in this fashion than other folk, I shall take an early opportunity of migrating to Texas or some other quiet place...
...TIME is banned in this country. I daresay that I am one of the very few people who have the honor of reading it. A friend in the States sends it regularly simply by removing the cover to avoid postal detection. Sea mail from the States takes two months to reach here, and the latest issue of TIME I have read is May 10. The article "Lincoln and Modern America" is an excellent one. Please pass my compliments to the author. Could he be the same person who wrote the article "The Age of Anxiety," which appeared in TIME, March...
...horrified courtiers to do the same. One of her great delights were the Chillies' Balls, at which Victoria and Brown would prance and dance wildly together. "What a coarse animal that Brown is," said Lord Cairns, the Lord Chancellor, to the Queen's secretary, Henry Ponsonby. "I daresay the Chillies' Ball could not go on without him, but I did not conceive it possible that anyone could behave as roughly as he does to the Queen...
Haunted by Ghosts. For all his unpopularity, Mahler also had powerful admirers-Bruno Walter, Richard Strauss, and particularly Arnold Schoenberg, who called him a "saint" and confounded Mahler vith his own early experiments in atonalism ("I don't understand his music," said Mahler. "I am old, and I daresay my ear is not sensitive enough...