But the horror of this was the fact that there was civilization, that there was order, but that civilisation only showed its morbidity, and order only its monotony.

No one would say, in going through a criminal slum, "I see no statues.

I notice no cathedrals." But here there were public buildings; only they were mostly lunatic asylums.
Here there were statues; only they were mostly statues of railway engineers and philanthropists--two dingy classes of men united by their common contempt for the people.

Here there were churches; only they were the churches of dim and erratic sects, Agapemonites or Irvingites.

Here, above all, there were broad roads and vast crossings and tramway lines and hospitals and all the real marks of civilization.