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Excerpt from On Two Continents: Memories of Half a Century
Who, forsooth, could make a better invention Than a candle that burns without snuffers' attention l So primitive was life then in contrast with the present, when we suffer under the high pressure of a highly com plex existence, that, for instance, on the occasion of a visit which my father paid to the wife of the Cabinet Minister, he found that very aristocratic lady knitting a stocking by the light of a single tallow candle. Combined with this simplicity of living, people were generally en dowed with a Singleness of heart which was more esteemed than material wealth, and a spirit of economy which benefited the ensuing. Generation.
But it is not in order to describe these times that I write my reminiscences; it is rather because early in life I came in contact with eminent and distinguished people, of whom I feel impelled to give an account.
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