Each new improvement in machinery deprives hundreds of food.

Civilization is the eternal sacrifice of one generation to the next.

An awful sense of the impotence of human agencies has crushed down the sublime aspirations for mankind which I once indulged.

For myself, I float on the great waters, without pilot or rudder, and trust passively to the winds, that are the breath of God." This conversation left a deep impression upon Evelyn; it inspired her with a new interest in one in whom so many noble qualities lay dulled and torpid, by the indulgence of a self-sophistry, which, girl as she was, she felt wholly unworthy of his powers.

And it was this error in Maltravers that, levelling his superiority, brought him nearer to her heart.