Genre:

Regular Feature, Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

Time's Telescope

Subjects:

Natural History, Feeling, Manufactories, Botany

    Rejoicing in the Arcadian pleasures of harvest-time, observes: 'Overgrown towns and manufactories may have changed for the worse, the spirit and feelings of our population; in them, "evil communications may have corrupted good manners;" but in the country at large, there never was a more simple-minded, healthful-hearted, and happy race of people than our present British peasantry' (10).