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{{HPB-CW-comment|view=center|[''Lucifer'', Vol. VI, No. 36, August, 1890, pp. 441-450]}} | |||
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“Mated with a squalid savage—what to me were sun or clime? | {{Style P-Poem|poem=“Mated with a squalid savage—what to me were sun or clime? | ||
I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time— | I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time—}} | ||
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Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, | {{Style P-Poem|poem=Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, | ||
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. | Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. | ||
Thro’ the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day; | Thro’ the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day; | ||
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.” | Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.”}} | ||
| | |—Tennyson,, Locksley Hall, lines 177-184.}} | ||
We, of the century claiming itself as the XIXth of our era, are very proud of our Progress and Civilization— Church and Churchmen attributing both to the advent of Christianity—“Blot Christianity out of the pages of man’s history,” they say, “and what would his laws have been?— what his civilization?” Aye; “not a law which does not owe its truth and gentleness to Christianity, not a custom which cannot be traced in all its holy and healthful parts to the Gospel.” | We, of the century claiming itself as the XIXth of our era, are very proud of our Progress and Civilization— Church and Churchmen attributing both to the advent of Christianity—“Blot Christianity out of the pages of man’s history,” they say, “and what would his laws have been?— what his civilization?” Aye; “not a law which does not owe its truth and gentleness to Christianity, not a custom which cannot be traced in all its holy and healthful parts to the Gospel.” | ||