Assimilative Memory Part 31

=70=--Tay Bridge disaster Dec. 28, 1879

71--Death of Mrs. Mary Ann Cross (George Eliot) Nov. 22, 1880

72--International Medical Congress in London; 2000 doctors from all parts of the world Aug. 3, 1881

73--Greenwich Observatory changed mode of reckoning time; commencing at midnight as in the case of civil time Jan. 1, 1885

74--First complete copy of Revised Bible presented to H. M. The Queen May 15, 1885

75--Sixpenny Telegrams introduced Oct. 1, 1885

76--By Pope's special authority the Queen visits the Monastery of the Grande Chartreuse Apr. 23, 1887

77--Queen's Jubilee; 50th Anniversary June 20, 1887

78--The "Times" Newspaper celebrates its 100th Anniversary Jan. 1, 1888

79--First of 10 victims of "Jack the Ripper,"

Whitechapel, London Aug. 29, 1888

=80=--Henry Irving, Miss Terry and Lyceum Co., play at Sandringham, before the Queen, Royal Family and Guests Apr. 26, 1889

81--Lord Mayor of London, Cardinal Manning and Bishop of London, const.i.tute a Board of Conciliation in the great Dock Strike Sept. 5, 1889

82--Sir E. Guinness gives 250,000 for the erection of dwellings for the poor of London and Dublin Nov. 19, 1889

83--Great Speech of Sir William Harcourt on Free Education in Scotland Aug. 1, 1890

84--Death of Cardinal Newman Aug. 11, 1890

85--Funeral of Charles Bradlaugh Feb. 3, 1891

86--Loss of s.s. "Utopia," off Gibraltar, 600 lives lost Mar. 17, 1891

87--International Postal Congress May 23, 1891

88--Meeting of Imperial Federation League June 19, 1891

89--Primrose League Demonstration at Hatfield July 18, 1891

=90=--Meeting in connection with University Extension of Education, held in Oxford Aug. 6, 1891

91--International Agricultural Congress reject nationalization of land Sept.11, 1891

92--Mr. Lidderdale and the Baring Liquidation Sept.17, 1891

93--Publication of Koch's new remedy for Tuberculosis Oct. 22, 1891

94--Centenary of Mozart's death observed in England Dec. 5, 1891

95--Indian national congress opened Dec. 27, 1891

96--The Khedive of Egypt appointed a new Cabinet without consulting the British Government. The next day he dismissed it under British pressure Jan. 17, 1893

97--The Australian Joint Stock Bank failed for 13,000,000 sterling Apr. 20, 1893

98--The House of Lords rejected the Home Rule Bill Sept. 8, 1893

99--Professor Tyndall died from an overdose of chloral administered in mistake by his wife Dec. 4, 1893

=100=--Lord Salisbury attacks Darwinianism in his address before the British a.s.sociation Aug. 8, 1894

a.n.a.lYSIS OF ONE HUNDRED EVENTS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA.

=1 and 2--Con. and In.=--The Victorian Era began June 20, 1837, and an Act for the abolition of the death penalty for forgery, &c., was pa.s.sed nearly a month later. Here is the relation of Sequence or Con. The main motive for enacting the law was doubtless sympathy.

Death appeared to be too cruel for the crime; hence the _sympathy_ on the part of the Sovereign, the founder of the Era, and of the legislators brought the Act into existence. Here we have the relation of Simple Inclusion.

=2 and 3--Ex.=--Criminals try to live by their wits, without work. The trade unionists live by labour. The modes of livelihood of these two cla.s.ses are opposed. Hence it is Ex.

=3 and 4--In. and Ex.=--Trades union people and navigators are laborers.--Here is In. But the former work mostly at home or in their own country, and the sailors are engaged beyond the boundaries of their native country.--Here is Ex. from difference of locality.

=4 and 5--In.=--The sailors on the Great Western worked beyond the limits of their native country, and an International Copyright Law extends its influence even into the area of foreign lands. In the view of the sphere of operation these two cases contain an element in common.--Hence it is In.

=5 and 6--Ex.=--The International Copyright Law was enacted after long and earnest agitation--but all legal.--The Chartist agitators had to be suppressed. Here are conditions opposed to each other.--It is Ex.

=6 and 7--Ex.=--The Chartist agitation was extreme, and was proclaimed illegal. The Anti-Corn Law League acted prudently and within the law. Here again are opposed conditions. It is Ex.

=7 and 8--In.=--The Anti-Corn Law League was organised to help give cheap food to the ma.s.ses. The Penny Postage Act was enacted to help the poor man, to save expense. A similar aim prompted the supporters of both measures.--It is In.

=8 and 9--Ex.=--Favouring the ma.s.ses by cheap postage calls attention to the majority or the great body of the people. The marriage of the highest dignitaries of the State directs attention to the most favoured or exalted personages in the country. The extremes of the community are brought into relation. It is Ex.

=9 and 10--Con. and In.=--Parents and child is a Sequence. Hence Con.

and a child possessing the blood of his parents sustains the relation also of In. to them. Let the pupil pause here, and before his next session of study of these events, let him recite these ten backwards and forwards several times from memory.

=10 and 11--In.=--Brother and sister possessing in common the blood of their parents is a case of In.

=11 and 12--Ex.=--Here is a birth contrasted with a death.--It is Ex.

=12 and 13--Ex.=--Death on the one hand and on the other a widespread effort to bring into existence Acts of Parliament.

Self-destruction contrasted with efforts at production.

=13 and 14--In.=--Here are two winners and two losers. The parties opposed to Chartists defeat the hearing of this proposed motion; and the British soldiers gain a victory over the Boers. Success in common makes a case of In. on the part of the victorious parties.

And then the Chartists lost their proposed hearing and the Boers were beaten. This is the second In.

=14 and 15--Ex.=--A resort to arms contrasted with a resort to diplomacy.

=15 and 16--Ex.=--A treaty between the two greatest nations of the earth, and loss of 10,000 men. A triumph of Peace and a triumph in War.