Excerpt from Free Opinions Freely Expressed, Vol. 1: On Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct
Some of these social papers which are now collected together and published in one volume for the first time, have appeared before in various periodicals enjoying a simultaneous circulation in Great Britain and the United States. Eleven of them were written for an American syndicate, which (for the purpose of copyright in England), sold them to a London weekly journal, wherein they were duly issued. "Pagan London," however, which caused some little public discussion, was not included among those supplied to the American syndicated press, that article having been written specially for English readers, as a protest against Archdeacon Sinclair's sweeping condemnation of the lax morality and neglect of religion among the teeming millions that populate our great English metropolis, - a condemnation which I ventured, and still venture to think unfair, in the face of the open worldliness, and gross inattention to the spiritual needs of their congregations on the part of a very large majority of the clergy themselves. Certain people, whose brains must be of that peculiar density which is incapable of receiving even the impression of a shadow of common sense, have since accused me of attacking "all" the clergy.
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