"Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. the idea of indefinite…"

"The cities of that period were rather shabby affairs. If you had the taste to make them splendid, which I would not b…"

"What we did see was that industrially the country was in a very queer way. The relation between the workingman and th…"

"It was no doubt the common opinion of thoughtful men that society was approaching a critical period which might resul…"

"The nervous tension of the public mind could not have been more strikingly illustrated than it was by the alarm resul…"

"As one of the wealthy, with a large stake in the existing order of things, I naturally shared the apprehensions of my…"

"The thirtieth day of May, 1887, fell on a Monday. It was one of the annual holidays of the nation in the latter third…"

"It was agreed that affairs were going from bad to worse very fast, and that there was no telling what we should come …"

"After this, I remember drawing Edith apart and trying to persuade her that it would be better to be married at once w…"

"In the first place, it was firmly and sincerely believed that there was no other way in which Society could get along…"