And remember, that these physical influences of great cities, physically depressing and morally degrading, influence, though to a less extent, the classes above the lowest stratum.
And this brings me to another, and a most fearful evil of great cities, namely, drunkenness.
Meanwhile, no man is to be blamed for the existence, hardly even for the evils, of great cities.
Refrigeration for steamships and freight cars put the markets of great cities at the doors of Southern fruit and vegetable gardeners.
People were "piled upon one another in great cities" and the republic of small farmers had passed away.
The mobs of great cities, he said, are sores on the body politic; artisans are usually the dangerous element that make revolutions; workshops should be kept in Europe and with them the artisans with their insidious morals and manners.
Some critics specialized in descriptions of the poverty, slums, and misery of great cities.
Our present task shall be less ungracious, and wandering through the busy haunts of great cities, we shall seek only for amusement, and note as we pass a few of the harmless follies and whimsies of the poor.
And therefore we are not surprised that Lucian has little eye for the splendour of his age, unless indeed in the phrase, "Great cities die as well as men.
The struggles and temptations of the poor in great cities suggest a discussion of the perpetual problem of prostitution, which probably no ancient writer ever faced so boldly.
The serious purpose of the piece, however, is to idealise the simple virtue and happiness of the country folk, and to discuss the disheartening problem of the poor in great cities.
If the population of great cities is too dense in general, it is they in particular who are packed into the least space.
Vaughan, author of "The Age of Great Cities," still more to this influence.
Let us leave London and examine the other great cities of the three kingdoms in their order.
In Mexico, and farther south, we find the ruins of great cities.
If we regard the others as palaces and the public buildings of great cities, we are at once puzzled to account for their great numbers.
It may be summarized as an unusual growth of great cities and a slight tendency to depopulation in the country.
They were no doubt composed of the idle and deserted children who generally swarm in great cities, nurtured in vice and daring, and ready for any thing.
On reflection it occurred to him, as it has to other provincial young persons going to great cities, that he might perhaps have been hasty in thinking himself an object of general curiosity as yet.
The viscous intelligence of a country-village is not easily stirred by the winds which ripple the fluent thought of great cities, but it holds every straw and entangles every insect that lights upon it.
There are little centres in the heart of great cities, just as there are small fresh-water ponds in great islands with the salt sea roaring all round them, and bays and creeks penetrating them as briny as the ocean itself.
Personal tastes and convenience, vocational and economic interests, infallibly tend to segregate and thus to classify the populations of great cities.
The Doctor gave us to understand that he was about to deliver the fifth of a series of lectures to young men in great cities.
Young men in great cities (it was observed) were in great danger, chiefly from example.
The discourse, however, which was again addressed to young men in great cities, was characterized by all the power and piety which distinguished the one of the previous Sabbath.
He and he alone, who had for so long been eating his heart out in fierce isolation, feels the strength and fulness of society, the poetical element in the massed strength of great cities and in great inventions.
During the winter Verhaeren lives in Paris, the most alive of all cities; for, though quiet is an inner need of his, he looks on the unrest and noise of great cities as a precious stimulant.
As there is a cry of the earth, so is there also a cry, as loud and as eloquent, which goes up from the pavement of great cities.
No one perceived the refinement and grace, the corruption and wantonness, of modern life as it is in great cities.
All those scenes from the life of great cities, their fashion and their misery, which then began to form the substance of drama and romance, had as yet no counterpart in painting.
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