text:  The civilization of Great Britain; the social questions at issue amongst us; the experiment making on so extended a scale of the effect of the new doctrines on the happiness of the people in the British islands; the prodigious wealth which has been accumulated in this country of late years; the magnitude and long duration of our political power; and the celebrity in arts in arms and in literature we have long enjoyed have struck all surrounding nations with astonishment which so far from diminishing is hourly on the increase