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When the discussion was ended the Right Honourable Lewis Harcourt, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, concluded an eloquent address with these words: "The time will come when we shall look back on this evening as the beginning of a new era in British colonial administration."
But even in this respect my Utopian dreams were destined to be disturbed. I think that my appearance at Dresden marked the beginning of a new era in journalism and criticism, which found food for its hitherto but slightly developed vitality in its vexation at my success.
When every outline of my shadow can plainly be seen through that curtain? Why do you hesitate? Have we Your Majesty's permission to draw the tables nearer together? There there is so much air at this window. Yes, ladies, this evening a new era begins for our monarchy. The beverages of China and the Levant shall from now on no longer be strangers to our court. What is this? Tea? And coffee?
It has been my great pleasure to read some of the letters addressed during the past months by the German friends to the Greatest Holy Leaf, and their perusal, I assure you, has filled me with intense satisfaction and made me still more confident of that glorious era of spiritual reawakening which the unseen Hand of our Master is sure to unfold to our eyes in the near future.
She says: "When we bear in mind the past experience of the human race, it is not perhaps surprising that, during an era of physical force and the predominance of the animal instincts in man, the doctrine of male superiority should have become firmly grounded.
When, on the 5th of February, 1915, the German admiralty proclaimed a "war zone" around the British Isles and announced that it would fight the sea power of the Allies with submarines, a new era in naval warfare had opened. In all previous wars, and in the earlier months of the Great War, submarines were employed as auxiliaries to the larger naval units.
Then came the second engineer, out of breath with running, followed by two or three helpers. "Fire, captain," he gasped, "fire in the fuel-room awful blaze started in the wood box cigarette we were just settin' round talkin' over what we were goin' to do in the New Era, an' the first thing we knew it was burnin' like " "The New Era," snapped the Commandant, "and be damned to it!
The era of Fort Sumter and Gettysburg, when liberty and slavery were in their death grapple, was an era so great that the ordinary issues of avarice, self-interest, fame, luxury, became contemptible, and men were exalted to the point where they spake, and suffered, and marched, and died, more like gods than men.
Perhaps his mind was wearied with the Middle Ages, from which he had nothing more to learn, and sought a greater fulness and a more perfect unity in the expanding forces of a new and grander era than was ever seen by Pagan heroes or by Gothic saints.
Their buildings grew in number and in magnificence, and the poor and suffering of the realm received their share in the new order of things, through a wider and better organized charity. With this new monastic life began a new era of learning. Schools were everywhere founded or renewed.
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