Author: Sir Charles Petrie

Cited by

• Neal Stephenson (1)
  • IN: The Diamond Age (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it.
    FROM: THE VICTORIANS, (1960), Book, UK