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Excerpt from The Great Reign
But if to the absence of the ancient amenities and noble achievements and pure ideals there is added the aggravation of a studied detraction of, and the insult of a calculated contempt for, those ideals and achievements, from the lips and pens of young men whose pertness passes for per spicuity and whose sauciness is mistaken for wit, it is time someone who knew England as it was in those great days should break silence, and tell the rising generation some thing oi those splendid times and of those illustrious men as he saw them face to face.
History ultimately puts every man in his proper place, and when these tumultuous times shall have passed away and mature judgment shall have opportunity to be heard, the great Victorians will, I know, be restored to universal honour, and their hoity-toity detractors will be forgotten.
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