whose awful abundance, and awful destructiveness in man and beast, science is just revealinga new page of danger and loathsomeness?

They have the typical characters of vermin; unproductive activity combined with disproportionate destructiveness.

So far as I have observed, London has been guilty of no such vandalism as is responsible for the new Boulevard Raspail in Paris, and similar heartless destructiveness, in a city which belongs less to France than to the human soul.

[Illustration: HOUSE OF M. THIERS DURING DEMOLITION AND REMOVAL.] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 90: It should be remarked that the destruction of M. Thiers' house coincided with the first success of the Versailles army; it was the spirit of hatred and mad destructiveness which dictated the following decree, issued by the Committee of Public Safety on the 10th of May: "Art.

It is strange to reflect that among his contemporary admirers Dale was credited with an intellect of unusual clarity, for the examination of any of his plays impresses one with the number and mutual destructiveness of his motives for artistic expression.

'Nationality', they will say, 'revealed itself first as a constructive force, and Europe staked its future upon it; but now that we are committed to it, it has developed a sinister destructiveness which we cannot remedy.

And now Gotzkowsky, often interrupted by the violent and angry exclamations of the king, told of the barbarous and cruel vandalism committed by the Saxons at Charlottenburg, their unbridled destructiveness and unsparing barbarity.