8/30 Young England or Peelite, this is all right and noble. What a yet unspoken poetry there is in that very sanitary reform! It is the great fact of the age. We shall have men arise and write epics on it, when they have learnt that "to the pure all things are pure," and that science and usefulness contain a divine element, even in their lowest appliances.' 'Write one yourself, and call it the Chadwickiad.' 'Why not? Why don't YOU rather, with your practical power, turn sanitary reformer--the only true soldier--and conquer those real devils and "natural enemies" of Englishmen, carbonic acid and sulphuretted hydrogen ?' 'Ce n'est pas mon metier, my dear fellow. I am miserably behind the age. |