Abominations of Modern Society - Thomas De Witt Talmage
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What is the preface and opening warning about society’s abominations?
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Preface and chapter one of the Abominations of Modern Society. This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librivox. org Recording by Christopher Smith The Abominations of Modern Society by Reverend T. DeWitt Talmadge, author of Crumbs Swept Up eighteen seventy two. Preface. This is a boy swung over the rocks. If it shall keep ship, bark, fore and aft schooner, or hermaphrodite brig from driving on a lee shore, all's well. The book is not more for young men than old. The Calabria was wrecked the last day out. Nor is the book more for men than women. The best being that God ever made is a good woman. And the worst that the devil ever made is a bad one.
If anything herein shall be a warning, either to man or woman, I will be glad that the manuscript was caught up between the sharp teeth of the type. Thomas DeWitt Talmadge, Brooklyn, january first, eighteen seventy two. The curtain lifted. Pride of city is natural to men in all times, if they live or have lived in a metropolis noted for dignity or prowess. Caesar boasted of his native Rome. Lycurgus of Sparta Virgil of Andes, Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsus. I should suspect a man of base heartedness who carried about with him no feeling of complacency in regard to the place of his residence, who gloried not in its arts or arms or behaviour, but Who looked with no exaltation upon its evidences of prosperity, its artistic embellishments, and its scientific attainments?
I have noticed that men never like a place where they have not behaved well. Swathout did not like New York. Nor Doctor Webster, Boston. Men who have free rides in prison vans never like the city that furnishes the vehicle. When I see in history, Argos, Rhodes, Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, and several other cities claiming Homer, I conclude that Homer behaved well. Let us not war against this pride of city, nor expect to build up ourselves by pulling others down. Let Boston have its common, its Fannuel Hall, its Colosseum, and its Atlantic Monthly. Let Philadelphia talk about its Mint and Independence Hall and Girard College. When I find a man living in either of those places who has nothing to say in favour of them, I feel like asking him
What mean thing did you do that you do not like your native city? New York is a goodly city. It is one city on both sides of the river. The East River is only the main artery of its great throbbing life. After a while four or five bridges will span the water, and we shall be still more emphatically one than now. When therefore I say New York City, I mean more than a million of people, including everything between Spyton Dival Creek and Gowanus. That which tends to elevate a part elevates all. That which blasts part blasts all. Sin is a giant, and he comes to the Hudson or Connecticut River and passes it as easily as we step across a figure in the carpet. The blessing of God is an angel, and when it stretches out its two wings, one of them hovers over that and the other over this.
In infancy the great metropolis was laid down by the banks of the Hudson. Its infancy was as feeble as that of Moses, sleeping in the bulrushes by the Nile, and like Miriam, there our fathers stood and watched it. The royal spirit of American commerce came down to the water to bathe, and there she found it. She took it in her arms, and the child grew and waxed strong, and the ships of foreign lands brought gold and spices to its feet, and, stretching itself up into the proportions of a metropolis, it has looked up to the mountains and off upon the sea, one of the mightiest of the energies of American civilization.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the preface and opening warning about society’s abominations?
0:00–33:14
2
How does the narrator describe the moral dangers of winter evenings?
33:14–1:19:39
3
What critique does the speaker give about fashion and its impact on society?
1:19:39–2:02:15
4
What injustices do women face in the workplace and how are they compensated?
2:02:15–3:44:54
5
How does the speaker expose the fraud and exploitation in stock‑market and oil speculation?
3:44:54–4:13:52
6
Why are gambling and lottery schemes described as a modern plague?
4:13:52–4:28:44
7
What does Talmage say about the problem of rum and its effect on society?
4:28:44–4:59:10
8
How does the speaker describe the temperance pledge and its impact on families?
4:59:10–6:08:29
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