Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alterna-tions are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it.
-Sir Charles Petrie,
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Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alterna-tions are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it.
-Sir Charles Petrie,