The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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R82 POSTSCRIPT been made, for good or evil, to govern Ireland according to Irish ideas, and to introduce and diffuse a wider acquaintance with the Erse language and literature. The Scotch failed in their endeavour to impose their habits of thought and insti- butions on England, as the price of their assistance in the Great Rebellion; and since the Restoration the effort at play expanding the English model, and introducing it in all parts ment of the Of the English realm, has been abandoned. The North desire to. American colonies were allowed to develop on their own oes 2 religious and social lines, and at the Union in 1707, the So rages Scottish ecclesiastical institutions and the Scottish legal systems were preserved intact, and side by side with those of England. The right and freedom for different nations to preserve their own language and traditions and sentiments within a single political community has been acknowledged, and this is the basis of English policy in all parts of the world. There is no other great civilised community in modern times which has shown itself ready to take this line; in the United States the need of assimilating the alien elements which immigrate there is constantly before men’s minds. The Tories and Loyalists were thrust out after the successful struggle against the British Crown?, and there is a determination so far as possible to keep out those who do not easily adapt themselves to American conceptions of citizen- ship. In Russia and Germany the pressure of the military system renders still more active measures inevitable; and she troubles in the Polish provinces of Prussia, and in Finland, mark the contrast between the prevailing ideas in England and in other great States upon the respect to be shown ta racial sentiment and tradition. oa It is perhaps less obvious that in England there is a respect for remarkably highly developed care for human life as such. The human life, gifference on this point between all Western peoples and savage tribes. or the civilisations of the East is very marked; and when East and West come in contact, there is a tendency for the higher races to take the savage or half-civilised at their own val#ation. In England, since the agitation against the slave-trade began, there has been a serious effort to apply 1 McMaster in Cambridge Modern History, vit. 307,

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