![]() the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! It is gone, that sense of principle, that chastity of honour that felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage while it lessened ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. Never more shall we see that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart that kept alive (even in servitude itself) the spirit of an exalted freedom. ![]() ![]() ![]() The age of logical tricksters, economists, and calculators has taken over, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ![]()
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