Poems of Wordsworth (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Poems of Wordsworth

It' is so easy to feel pride and satisfaction in one's own things, sohard tomakesurethatoneisright in feeling it! We baveagreat empire. But so had Nebuchad nemr. We extol the unrivalled happiness of our national civilisation. But then comes a candid friend, and remarksthatourupperclassismaterialised, our middle class vulgarised, and our lower class brutalised. We are proud of our painting. Our music. But we find that in the judgment of other people our painting is questionable, and our music non-existent. We are proud of our men of science. And here it turns out that the world is with us; we find that in the judgment of other people, too, Newton among the dead, and Mr. Darwin among the living, hold as high a place as they hold in our national opinion.

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