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Free Thoughts On Many Subjects: A Selection from Articles Contributed to 'fraser's Magazine', by a Manchester Man [R. Lamb].
Free Thoughts On Many Subjects A Selection from Articles Contributed to 'fraser's Magazine' by a Manchester Man - R. Lamb Author:Robert Lamb General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 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 book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 185 THE MEETING IN MANCHESTER OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, 1861. If the British Association had been in scientific search of a contrast, it could not have succeeded better than in fixing upon Manchester next after Oxford as its place of meeting. The two cities are striking types of two phases of society; how distinctively marked, and how widely dissimilar ! Around Oxford are gathered the historic associations of many centuries. Kings have had their residence in its palaces; parliaments have met in its halls; superstition has brooded over its towers ; martyrs have died in its streets, leaving a purified faith to revive and spread from their ashes; and from its colleges have issued forth the learned and the noble of our land -- generals who have led armies to victory, statesmen who have swayed senates by their eloquence and wisdom, preachers who have stirred up the soul from its depths, and philosophers who have won their trophies from the deep mysteries of nature. Manchester, indeed, is not without its historic associations, but they are of a less romantic character : it is of ancient origin, but of modern celebrity. The conflict of armies has sometimes raged in its streets; but it is better known as having long been the seat of peaceful commerce. It is only however within the last century that it has risen to its great eminence, and achieved a name and a fame which have been carried by its ships and merchandise to the furthest corners of the world. In the very buildings of the two places there is a striking contrast. On looking at those sombre colleges, our minds are car...« less