The St. James's Magazine and Heraldic and Historical Register, Ed. by J.B. Burke
by John Bernard Burke (9781150616969)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE NOBLE BLOOD OF BRITAIN. Our anti-revolutionary readers will be startled when we coolly assert, that the whole system of nature is an ever-living argument in favour of Socialism; yet so it is -- not that, from the strong lion who fiercely comhats each intruder upon the hunting grounds to which prescription has given him a property, down to the timid hen that acquires unusual courage when an attack upon her young clutch threatens the sacred rights of family, the whole creation does not daily proclaim the impious error of those ignorant fanaties who announce that " la propriet, c'est le vol " and will not allow that paternal authority or conjugal fidelity are moral necessaries to society -- no the Socialism which nature teaches is one far more worthy of our attention: it is that which binds man to man, nation to nation, hemisphere to hemisphere; telling us of things inanimatc, and much more decidedly of the animal race, that it is well to bring those together whom space had separated. Who among wise farmers is there, who does not obey that mysterious axiom, " change your seed often?" The same class of men (with whom we would wish that the theoretic study of that nature with whose operations they are practically so well acquainted were more usual) testify to the vast superiority possessed by the scientifically crossed and highly artificial breeds of short-homed cattle and Southdown sheep over all the original stocks from which they have been produced. In this sporting realm, we can all make the same remark on Epsom course, and feel that the purest Arabian we could import would not necessarily wi...

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