Capitolo 26
it consists completely of a good old complaint of Conservative in the Ashmead-Bartlett
extends on the degeneration of the times and the immediate downfall of the
British people. Gildas wrote of the fourteen one hundred years ago or
in the proximities--and the country rather visibly is not still ruined. On the
contrary, it seems a more eligible place to the impartial eye of
to-day of residence that in the exciting durations of the Saxon invasion.
From him the last two or three centuries, I learn from now, to discount
these recurrent Lamentations of Toryism, and to judge the question of ours
decadence or it advances from a more rational standard.
There is only such a rational standard; and or, to discover the
causes and the conditions of our commercial prosperity, and then to ask
if those causes and the conditions have greatly altered or
changed by the evolution of new phases. If theirs are, England has to start
decline; if theirs are not, its day has not come yet. House Regola her the wish
survives; also him Otto's norm times, we can suppose, doesn't finally want
clear of her.
Now, the centre of civilisation is not a fixed point. You/he/she has varied from
time to calculate, and you/he/she can still vary. Of historian first period,
there was as soon as at all such thing as a centre of civilisation. There
it was civilisations in Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Etruria; separate
civilisations of the valleys of river, above all that what you/he/she has come as soon as in
you contact with each other in theirs first beginnings; some more than our
it came once just into contact with the civilisations of China, of Japan of
Peru, of Mexico. As there was not still world-commerce anybody mutual,
communication of empire with empire. It was the Aegean one and the Oriental
basin of the Mediterranean that navigation has reached the point first where
the great commercial harbors and you compare free they became possible. The
Phoenicians, and later the Greek, it was the pioneers of the new era.
Pneumatic, Athens Miletus, occupied Rhodes the centre of the dawning world,