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Page 83 - ... and any advocate that makes such an appeal is promptly disbarred. In Beaulieu, the prime object of all education is the development of character, and for this reason education is never divorced from religion. The idea of a rigidly secularized education is abhorrent to the inhabitants of Beaulieu, who attribute to its prevalence in the nineteenth century much of the retrogression in character, the loss of sound standards of value, and the disappearance of leadership which synchronized with the...
Page 70 - ... harvest periods the mills are shut down. When it happens (as it often does) that a mill shows a profit, all in excess of three per cent on the value of the plant is divided between the employees and the clerical force, for one of the established laws of all Walled Towns is that capital is entitled to a fixed return, the surplus belonging to the labour, both mental and physical, that produces the results. Stock companies as such are strictly prohibited and it is unlawful to pay money for the use...
Page 83 - ... administration of justice, the defence of right and the punishment of wrong. An appeal based on technicalities is therefore prohibited and any advocate that makes such an appeal is promptly disbarred. In Beaulieu, the prime object of all education is the development of character, and for this reason education is never divorced from religion. The idea of a rigidly secularized education is abhorrent to the inhabitants of Beaulieu, who attribute to its prevalence in the nineteenth century much of...
Page 72 - ... in this particular case not unlike St. Cuthbert's, Wells, only half hidden by fine trees and surrounded by a green and shady churchyard. On another side is the Town Hall, also with a lofty tower flying the great flag of the city, while the other sides of the square are filled with the rich facades of the Guild Halls. Opening out of this central square is the Market Place, entered through a noble archway between two of the Guild Halls, and in this square is the Market House and several more Guild...
Page 63 - ... useless luxuries" as private possessions and are forbidden within the walls. There is nothing to prevent a townsman owning and using a motor car or private telephone beyond the town walls, if he likes, though this is looked on with disfavour, and as a matter of fact is unusual. In the early days of this, as of all Walled Towns, and to some extent thereafter, those who became townsmen continued their business or professions " in the world outside the walls...
Page 85 - ... carrying of all children through the same schools to the same point. It is held that beyond a certain stage most children profit little or nothing by continued intensive study. On the other hand, there are always those whose desires and capacities would carry them to the limit. These are watched for with the most jealous care, and if a boy or girl shows special aptitude along any particular line he becomes an...
Page 85 - Beyond reading, writing, arithmetic and music, which are common to all, the curriculum varies widely, though history, literature and Latin are practically universal. In some schools mathematics will be carried further than in others, in some natural science, while elsewhere literature, history, modern languages will be emphasized. There is no effort to subject all children to the same methods and to force them to follow the same courses — quite the reverse ; neither is the object the carrying of...
Page 85 - ... student, and thereafter he is in a sense a ward of the community, being sent without charge to the higher schools, the college, and even on occasion to some university beyond the limits of the Walled Town if he can gain there something not available within the walls. Of course any student may continue as far as he likes, or is able, but this is not encouraged except in the case of the honour student, and he must himself meet his own expenses.
Page 5 - ... tropical birds. No din of noise, no pall of smoke, but fresh air blowing within the city and without, even through the narrow streets, none too clean at best, but cleaner far than they were to be thereafter and for many long centuries to come. Such was any walled town in the fifteenth century, let us say in France or England or Italy, in Flanders or Spain or the Rhineland. Carcassonne...
Page 9 - ... steam in spurts. Over it all was the roar of industrial civilization. McCann cast a pitying look at the pale, dispirited figures passing languidly to and fro in the midst of the din and the foul air, and set his teeth closely. "' Presently they entered that part of the city where live the poor, they who work in the mills, when they are not on...