Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
So. . . I feel in regard to this aged England. . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and. . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.