DECADENT ENGLISHWOMEN.
Professor Zorrero, who knows all about the Decline of Ancient Rome, has lately been speaking his mind, in a German review, auout'tnc Decline of Modem England. Of course, the decline is not yet distressingly apparent, except to. the perspicuous eyes of ajTeutoriic professor;.but, all the samp, the English. arc, it appears, going the way of all , over-civilised and luxurious Empire's. This' newest critic has not visited England for thirteen years, and_ he is amazed at the increase of luxury, of facilities for pleasure, at the size of the new public buildings. But (says a " Sketch " writer) it is the modern Englishwoman who fills .the Professor with more alarm than-even tho new War Office. Ho foarsdier because of her numbers, because of her-.pretensions to political power, and because of her impressionability to new ideas from abroad, which ho thinks will undermine English national life, just as the ideas and,religions imported from the East, and which! were, encouraged by the ladjes, undermined the . Republican virtues of' Rome in. her ..splendour.- ...
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 38, 8 November 1907, Page 3
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170DECADENT ENGLISHWOMEN. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 38, 8 November 1907, Page 3
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