Now associations are formed for practising and studying the choral works of the great masters.
We might indeed adduce many more causes which seem to produce changes of habits, tastes, and associations, amongst our people.

For example, families do not vegetate for years in one retired spot as they used to do; young men are encouraged to attain accomplishments, and to have other sources of interest than the field or the bottle.

Every one knows, or may know, everything that is going on through the whole world.

There is a tendency in mankind to lose all that is peculiar, and in nations to part with all that distinguishes them from each other.

We hear of wonderful changes in habits and customs where change seemed impossible.
In India and Turkey even, peculiarities and prejudices are fading away under the influence of time.