England (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from England<br><br>Time was when it was praise and boast enough<br>In every clime and travel where we might,<br>That we were born her children.<br><br>Cowper.<br><br>Few things are sadder in life, not even death itself, than the spectacle of growth which is no longer in harmony with its origins; a plant, a child, a nation which, affected by secondary and alien elements, its veins charged with morbific virus, increases in bulk, but daily loses the natural character by which we have come to know and perhaps to love it.<br><br>All the more poignantly is the sadness felt when it is possible to recall vividly a point in the process of development when the purpose of Nature, were it sthetic, moral, or wholly utilitarian, seemed to be achieving the ideal.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.