Excerpt from English Episodes The Reverend A. Bradbury-wells was, one fears, too human to view that erection cordially. Next, there was the stir in the parish made now and again by Agnostics with a mission. To the Rev. A. Bradbury-wells they, when they came, indicated rather the folly of the Present than that which they thought to make evident - the folly of most of the Past. Les t'rats hammes de progres - he was wont to consider, in the words of a genius who was but tenderly sceptical - [es vrazls hommes de progres scat ceux put out pour point de depart Ie respect preform? Da passe. Then a Board School was threatened in the immediate neighbourhood, and, instead of learn ing to read and to write, to cook and to sew, and to be reverent and womanly, and with pretty manners, there was reason to fear that the girls of the district would all play badly on the piano, and would learn to draw indifi'erently, and would never be poor men's wives. But that alarm was premature - people, at all events, married. Last of all, in the high road, came, every Sunday, hysterical, ill-fed women, vulgarising Christi anity - as it seemed to the Vicar - with all the authority that in the natural course of things belongs to a tambourine and a flag. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.