"Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backward and forward

"Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backward and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it." — Sir Charles Petrie, The Victorians