Transcribed from the 1875 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition byDavid Price,
london:printed by
spottiswoode and co., new-street square
and parliament street
by
CHARLES KINGSLEY, F.L.S., F.G.S.
rector ofeversley: canon ofwestminster
chaplain in ordinary to the queen and theprince of wales
LONDON
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1875
All rights reserved
to
CYRUS FIELD, J. A. C. GRAY,
and all those valued american friends whowelcomed
my husband to their great country,
and through whose generous kindness he wasenabled
in the last year of his life
to realise the dreams of his youth
by the sight, notonly op the eastern states and cities,
but of the far west, the rocky mountains,
and the yo semite valley,
i dedicate these lectures with deepestgratitude
In Memoriam.
FANNY E. KINGSLEY.
Byfleet: August 1875.
lect. |
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I. | WESTMINSTER ABBEY | |
II. | THE STAGE AS IT WAS ONCE | |
III. | THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA | |
IV. | THE SERVANT OF THE LORD | |
V. | ANCIENT CIVILISATION |
Reverence for age, at least so it has long seemed to me,reverence for age, I say, is a fair test of the vigour of youth;and, conversely, insolence toward the old and the past, whetherin individuals or in nations, is a sign rather of weakness thanof strength. And the cause, I think, is this. Therich and strong young natures, which feel themselves capable oforiginal thought and work, hav