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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and is read by a fullthird of all humanity, whilethe catastrophes of tlie lastmillennium were known onlyin their own provinces. Eventhis is but a small part of thetale of the strength of grow-ing humanity. When earliervolcanoes belched destruc-tion, the bonds of weaker hu-manity were broken, and eachfleeing suflferer thought onlyof self,—save as the motherinstinctively clung to her off-spring or the aged servantsupported his master, afterthe habit of years ; but to-day the strong succor theweak, the sound support thewounded, and those havingfood share with the starving,so that most victims lyingnear the border line of de-struction are saved. Had theAntilles been populateddensely as to-day before swiftships and railways and cableswere made, and had MontPelee erupted then, the directdestruction would have beenfollowed by famine,—as itwas always in olden time,—and the measure of humansuffering and death wouldhave been three or five times 678 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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THE MARKET PLACE AT WATER FRONT, ST. PIEKKE. greater than that of her dark fortnight; hadthe disaster occurred before the growth of tliathuman feeling which prompts neighboring na-tions to share their abundance with every suffer-ing people, starvation would have slain morethan the burning gases and hot rock-pow^der ;in earlier days sailors surviving sea-quakes indoomed harbors strove solely for personal escape,perhaps chopping off the fingers of clinginghands, as is of record, while to-day human sen-timent is of such intensity that the half-wreckedvessels in the roadstead of St. Pierre were devotedto rescue despite the stress of suffering and deadlydanger. In these days of large humanity heroism isbecome common ; yet it is not so common as todim the brilliant record of officers and crews ofLa Sachet, Potomac, Valkyrian, and other ves-sels caught in the fire-storm of St. Pierre. Thestrengthening solidarity of mind led mankind isnot yet so well giown as to warrant pitting hu-man strengt

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