Victorian virtues

Introduction

Great Cities and their Influence for Good and Evil by the English university professor, historian, and novelist Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) is a lecture given in Bristol in 1857 in which he posited the idea of the corrupting propensities of urban living, with claims that “the social state of a city depends directly on its moral state”.

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