...postponed to another opportunity. Take, to fix our ideas, the two verses from " Locksley Hall " : " I, the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time," and — " For I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs." Why is it that when we recite...

...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage, — what to me were sun...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — ^rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like...

...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains. Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — MS I that rather held it better men should perish one by one Than that earth should stand at gaze...

...I know my words are wild, For I count the grey barbarian lower than the Christian child. * * * * # Mated with a squalid savage, what to me were sun or...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever...

...(1960); J. Saville, 'The Welfare State', in The New Reasoner, no. 3 (1957). Ill LOOKING BACKWARDS I am the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time. Tennyson In order to estimate its [the nineteenth century's] full importance and grandeur ... we must...

...foreheads vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains. "I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of times, Match with a squalid savage •what to me were time or tide?" This desire to retain to the primitive...

...toward a certain end shall come up later. Take, to fix our ideas, the two verses from 'Locksley Hall': "I, the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time/' and — 'Tor I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs." Why is it that when we recite...

...foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains! Mated with a squalid savage - what to me were sun...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...

...fairly kicked out of existence. To the white man then, the philosopher, poet, orator, historian—to him "the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," it matters little whether donkeyism or negroism predominate; either, to him, would be extinction. To...

...weakening the inference to which we are irresistibly led by Geology, History, and Archaeology that Man, The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of Time, is a very much nobler and exalted animal than the shivering and naked savage whose squalid and ghastly...