"Society, which, at the beginning of the Queen's reign, was strict, formal, and circumscribed, has followed the trend of other things, and taken a hint from commercial legislation. It has entered into an enormous syndicate, under the rules of strictly limited liability. Individualism is stamped out; Collectivism has come in. The rush and rapidity of thought and action, supplemented by all the appliances of modern science, have largely increased."
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Algernon West
(4 April 1832 – 21 March 1921) was a British civil servant and from 1861 to 1894 the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
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