The dance of modern society

Image 1 of The dance of modern society THE DANCE OF MODERN SOCIETY: BY W. C. WILKINSON. NEW YORK: OAKLEY, MASON & CO., 21 Murray Street . 1869.

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 2 of The dance of modern society Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1869, By Oakley, Mason & Co ., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 3 of The dance of modern society 3 PREFATORY NOTE. It is now nearly two years since the most of the following pages appeared as an article in one of our American quarterly reviews. The article immediately attracted attention,...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 4 of The dance of modern society 4 that the essay was accepted by a considerable number of minds as a satisfactory expression of opinion on a subject of living social and ethical interest. It is at least a...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 5 of The dance of modern society 5 THE DANCE OF MODERN SOCIETY. I Propose an unusual compliment to the Dance—I propose to discuss it. I cheerfully lend it dignity for the purpose. I pledge myself, besides, to put...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 6 of The dance of modern society 6 but differ from me in opinion upon the present topic. I do not, it will be seen, affect the candor either of ingenuous inquiry or of judicial neutrality. Much less do...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 7 of The dance of modern society 7 free to take her chances of living down, as best she may, the ancient and sacred suspicion against her, which still survives in that one safe sanctuary left for a badgered...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 8 of The dance of modern society 8 that has grown to a really overshadowing greatness among us almost unperceived, simply by the policy of maintaining always, with a persistent laugh, that it was quite too small to merit...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 9 of The dance of modern society 9 might implore to know, are we to hope for the voice that shall re-animate an abject and oblivious age? If the salt have lost his savor, where with shall it be...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 10 of The dance of modern society 10 invoking so long. How crass the folly of trying to satisfy these morbid seekers after amusement by giving them what they crave! And yet there is a cry from some quarters,...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 11 of The dance of modern society 11 urgency that has impelled them in the new direction. Meantime it will be manifest wisdom for organizations consciously less experienced to await the result of some better-appointed experiment, in so doubtful...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 12 of The dance of modern society 12 with cue and ball as shall take away their guardian shame of accepting some farther-developed acquaintance's invitation to turn into a downstairs billiard-room on the street. This drift of education will...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 13 of The dance of modern society 13 and half honest indignation, against following lures of pleasure to heaven. But this whole subject is one that demands and will receive ample discussion. The dance is popularly reckoned among amusements....

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 14 of The dance of modern society 14 all forms of human self-indulgence and material enjoyment. But in the second place, it is an incident of our nineteenth century civilization that we live intensely. Everybody is in a chronic...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 15 of The dance of modern society 15 as any what it is to have the omnivorous and insatiable brain suck vigor out of every nerve and muscle, out of every joint and marrow, in the body, and leave...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 16 of The dance of modern society 16 It is both a whimsical and a pathetic sign of the times to read the glowing ascriptions to ‘muscle’ with which periodical literature has lately been illustrated from the pens of...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 17 of The dance of modern society 17 every literary man. The consequence is that the athletic sports, which are praised by men of brain, are practised by men of muscle. Literary men, meanwhile, betake themselves to forms of...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 18 of The dance of modern society 18 unbroken vigor of health simply to sustain them with impunity, that man's condition goes far toward resembling the condition of a time-piece whose main-spring has given way just after winding. There...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 19 of The dance of modern society 19 faults, like their virtues, were on an ample pattern. They undoubtedly went too far in moral severity; but it was a pathway of error in which their following was never likely...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 20 of The dance of modern society 20 gave pleasure to the spectators. How many have smiled, with involuntary applause, at this epigrammatic snare for the hapless Puritans, and how few have ever troubled themselves to perceive that the...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 21 of The dance of modern society 21 Our modern festive wisdom is far too self-complacent. It is not certain, after all, that the Puritans were not nearer the truth than we. Grim earnest is nobler than play run...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 22 of The dance of modern society 22 that dancing, in itself, is perfectly innocent. No one denies this. It is as harmless to dance as it is to walk, or to run. But the present question is not...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 23 of The dance of modern society 23 neither do I restrict my argument, or my conclusion, to those rythmic gyrations popularly called “round dances.” A popular magazine never distinguished for martyrdom to principle, may safely inveigh against these....

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 24 of The dance of modern society 24 I. The bearing of the dance upon the Health; II. Its relation to Economy; III. Its Social Tendency; IV. Its Influence upon Intellectual Improvement; V. Its Moral or Religious Aspects. This...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 25 of The dance of modern society 25 at rational hours of the day, for a rational length of time, scarcely to exceed say an hour, those participating in it being suitably attired to permit the freest play of...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 26 of The dance of modern society 26 and by a dense crowd of jostling guests, redolent of perfumes, met under rigorous demands that their dress should be such as to repress respiration, and to embarrass everything like naturalness...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 27 of The dance of modern society 27 of virtue, will scarcely have time after they have finished that task to perform a like service for the dance, in making it what it should be as the handmaid of...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 28 of The dance of modern society 28 to save the drama again. The success already appears to confirm the auspices. The patronage of the new theatre is said to be made up in part of elements that have...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 29 of The dance of modern society 29 regenerated by Christian patronage of the stage. Managers, of course, conduct their operations with a thrifty eye to the avoidance of deficits at the end of the season. They aim to...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 30 of The dance of modern society 30 of His will, would draw them away to their own assemblies for conference, and for prayer that their zeal in purifying the theatre might be successful. On those evenings, what if...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 31 of The dance of modern society 31 moral reform. As a matter of present observation, is not the dramatic revival coincident with a bottomless degradation of the stage? The close kinship between the subject of the theatre and...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 32 of The dance of modern society 32 the legitimate articles. It would certainly be one of the most striking spectacles of misguided philanthropy and self-sacrifice, that the world has ever produced, to behold a well-regulated, demure-stepping, devout procession...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 33 of The dance of modern society 33 of our civilization. The general system of late hours, which has grafted its monstrous absurdity upon our modern social life, is probably traceable to the dance. Viewed from without, the dance...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 34 of The dance of modern society 34 that it may resemble some imaginary sylph, rather than that grand old mother Eve, whom God created for a wife to Adam—or whether it be their dress, floating like a fleecy...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 35 of The dance of modern society 35 it is one nevertheless sufficiently important to deserve a moment's attention. No student of history needs to be reminded that there is a close connection between the sumptuary habits of a...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 36 of The dance of modern society 36 outward and downward, through every quarter of Christendom, (the unavoidable irony of the word!) and through every grade of society. It tends to impoverish every noble human need to enrich the...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 37 of The dance of modern society 37 until attention is absorbed again in still more extravagant preparation for the next magnificent affair. ‘Society’ has its ‘Court Gazette’ in our republican metropolis, in which the student of our social...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 38 of The dance of modern society 38 of the dance. And it must be admitted that in truth they are not. They are equally incident to every so-called amusement that consists mainly in making up a spectacle ....

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 39 of The dance of modern society 39 trifle less exquisitely ridiculous than those of the style which has just superseded them! I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the dance, being formed upon the idea...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Image 40 of The dance of modern society 40 one. All rivers run to the sea. These smaller assemblies are feeders to the larger. And the law issues from the ball-room to the private parlor, just as to private theatricals...

Contributor: Wilkinson, William Cleaver - Oakley, Mason & Co.
Date: 1869

Book/Printed Material The dance of modern society