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that is the simple truth alone of it. 'Tis an accidental contest of
houses of hap-hazard.
"But we am improving rather. The Board Provinciale is opening out some
waterways new piece asunder." Oh yes, in an illogical, not systematic,
Way of patchwork English, we am driving an it evil-drew, modest
new road or two, senseless expansive of the imperial greatness,
through the hopelessly congested and the most greater part of bleak quarters. But that is
everybody. Anybody great, systematic, reconstructives plan, anybody rising to the height
of the occasion and the empire! You are a coppersmith street to an Avenue of Shaftesbury.
Parish, all of him. And there you find the true secret of ours futile
attempts to extending a city of our bleak village. The guilt lies everybody
to the door of the old Stock companies, and of the people that did and still
the old Stock company makes possible. There were for centuries, indeed
really anybody London, not also a village; there was only a scratch
harvest of adjoining villages. The consequence was here that to the,
centre of the national life, the people English they grew completely unaccostomed to
the naked idea of a city, and it handled asunder piece all, on the small one
staircase of a sacristy of country. The intelligence of vestryman has now overflowed
the earth; and if the Board Provinciale and London he/she ever succeeds finally in
making the congeries of villages in--I don't say a city, for that it is
almost past that prays for, but anything analogous to an of second category
Continental city, will be later only elapsed of the long and violent time
struggles with the vestryman level of intellect and feeling.
London had many great disadvantages to start with. You placed in a dull and
marshy fund, without building by hand stone and therefore she was
forecondemned from his a lot of position to the brick curse and plaster,
when Bath, Oxford, Edinburgh both all built out of them really it digs.
Then fire destroyed all of its architecture of mediaeval, while leaving her/it only
Westminster Abbey to suggest the greatness of his/her losses. But