The National Quarterly Review, Vol. 8: December 1863, and March 1864 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from The National Quarterly Review, Vol. 8: December 1863, and March 1864

The works languished although the dungeons were still filled; the mortality was frightful; corruption became more general from day to day; irreligion more barefaced; insubordination more frequent, and sometimes going as far as insurrection and murder; the rules it upon, monopoly at its apogee, and disorder endemic. It was fin y suggested: Let na try to induce the Brothers to take charge.' Their installation takes place; and the exasperation is at once mitigated, and the dark horizon begins to brighten. Application to labor soon dis pels indolen cc, and submission takes the place of revolt, punishments become me, turpitude disappears, the numbers of deaths and diseases diminish, the spirit of piety progresses through the masses, silence reigns, intercourse is entirely rohibited, order is established, and the most scandalous house in the °n dom a pandemonium, which armed Nd brutal force failed to keep unger restraint, is disciplined, subdued.

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