THE VICTORIAN AGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1928, Page 4

THE VICTORIAN AGE.

Why the Victorian age should he so IYef|iiently derided is surely astonishing when its record is considered. The age that produced Tennyson. the Brownings. Swinburne. Carlyle. Dickens. Thackeray. George Eliot, Trollope. the Kingsleys. Mrs Haskell, Buskin. Macaulay. Fronde. Becky. Fitzgerald. Matthew. Arnold. Bosetii. Meredith, Stevenson. Morris. Morloy and Bryce has no reason to feel

ashamed of its achievements in literature nor. having regard to Faraday. Huxley. Tyndall. Darwin. Adams. Lyell. Geikie. Loekver. Lord. Kelvin. Crooks. Sir Oliver Lodge, and others too numerous to mention, was it “top-

hattish” in the way of science. AForeover, in other matters—the substitution of humane and reasonable laws.

both criminal and civil, for the cruel injustice and absurdities of preceding eras, the levelling-up of ’ the great middle class, the improvement in the conditions of life and the education of the working claws, the creation of

the British Empire, and the wonders following on the discovery of the application of steam and electricity—the Victorian progress was for greater than that of the whole of the Hanoverian epoch.—Sir Arthur Underhill, in the ‘•Nineteenth Century 11 nd After.”