...service for ends not more curative, or perhaps as much, than preventive in all pertaining to disease." "Not in vain the distance beacons, forward, forward, let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change." COMFORT AND SAFETY IN THEATRES AND PLACES...

...Victorian thinkers. Nevertheless, whereas a poet such as Tennyson in 'Locksley Hall' (1842) could write, Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change, Through the shadow of the globe we sweep...

...for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. CIP Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Alfred Tennyson Locksley Hall Contents...

...men should perish one by one. Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon! 180 Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep...

...its challenge: Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Even so,...

...this dream of escape as a retreat from his responsibilities and looks to the future and its challenge: Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep...

...is famously expressed in Tennyson's poem Locksley Hall written in the 1830s (and published in 1842): 'Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.' These lines express the contemporary...

...possibilities of change, especially change brought about through the scientific advances of the modern world: Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Through the shadow of the globe we sweep...

...(1837-8) he portrayed the railway as a symbol of Western energy, which should be welcomed, not shunned: 'Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spinjor ever down the ringing grooves of change. ' Sadly, as Tennyson himself admitted,...

...speaker identifies himself as "heir of all the ages," and who sees a bright future accessible by rail: "Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward, let us range, / Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change." The speaker's faith in linear progress...