Since 1870, and the unification of Germany, the growth of her manufactures and her trade has been enormous; her commercial prosperity has gone up by leaps and bounds; and this extension of trade, especially of international trade, has ledas it had already so conspicuously done in Englandto the development of corresponding ideals and habits of life among the population.

The modest, simple-living, middle-class households of fifty years ago have largely disappeared, and in their place have sprung up, at any rate in the larger towns, the very same commercial and parasitical classes, with their Philistine luxury and fatuous ideals, which have been so depressing and distressing a feature of our social life during the same period.

To-day the uprising of Socialist ideals, of the power of Trade Unions, and especially the formation of International Unions, show us that we are on the verge of this third stage.

Riches beyond all expectation flowed in; and a mercantile class arose in her midst whose ideals of life were of a corresponding characterthe ideals of the wealthy shopkeeper.

Riches beyond all expectation flowed in; and a mercantile class arose in her midst whose ideals of life were of a corresponding characterthe ideals of the wealthy shopkeeper.

And these unworthy motives and inhuman characteristics again spring obviously out of the mean and materialistic ideals of life which still have sway among usthe ideals of wealth and luxury and displayof which the horrors of war are the sure and certain obverse.

And these unworthy motives and inhuman characteristics again spring obviously out of the mean and materialistic ideals of life which still have sway among usthe ideals of wealth and luxury and displayof which the horrors of war are the sure and certain obverse.

The brutality, and atrocity of modern war is but the reflection of the brutality and inhumanity of our commercial regime and ideals.

I suppose patriotism, or love of countrywhen it comes to its full realization, as in the case of invasion by an enemy, is the most powerful and tremendous of such ideals, sweeping everything before it.

To be worthy of such ideals men fought.

As in America, so in England, a surfeit of materialism had produced a lack of high spiritual purpose in the nation at large; there was much confusion of ideas and ideals; and also much triviality, which was especially offensive when it masqueraded under some high-sounding name.

Scarcely had he arrived in Italy when he was forced to see that Italian ideals were very different from what he had imagined them to be.

To those who have vouchsafed for us the permanence of the higher ideals of humanity and civilization.

They depend upon people of ideals for support.

Representing the high ideals of our countrymen and cherishing the spirit of our forefathers who first celebrated this festival of Thanksgiving, we are proud to have repaid a debt of gratitude to the land of Lafayette and to have lent our aid in saving civilization from destruction.

" The ideals of chivalry and the Crusades left their impress on the age.

This period would not have existed in vain, if it had given to the world nothing, but these Arthurian ideals of generosity, courage, honor, and high endeavour, which are still a potent influence.

This story, which reminds us of Spenser's Faerie Queene, presents in a new garb one of the oft-recurring ideals of the race, "keep troth" (truth).

" We should remember that these romances are the most characteristic literary creations of the Middle Ages, that they embody the new spirit of chivalry, religious faith, and romantic love in a feudal age, that they had a story to tell, and that some of them have never lost their influence on human ideals.

These Idylls show the struggle to maintain noble ideals.

" He made his knights swear to uphold the ideals of his court "To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And warship her by years of noble deeds Until they won her.

Although the Idylls of the King are uneven in quality and sometimes marred by overprofusion of ornament and by deficiency of dramatic skill, their limpid style, many fine passages of poetry, appealing stories, and high ideals have exerted a wider influence than any other of Tennyson's poems.

Theories of government and social ideals have also undergone a gradual change.

Above all, he stands as the interpreter of the ideals and the interests of the Anglo-Saxons of his time.

Gordon's The Social Ideals of Alfred Tennyson.