Chasing Time

“Next, we have the most noble recipient of the Order of the Garter, the Grand Cross of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Victoria Cross and the lower grades of Knighthood, the leader of the anti-colonial movement, the bell-ringer of the East India Company, the hero of the Crimean War, a Fellow of the Royal Society, a lifelong dear friend of literary giants such as Dickens and Great Dumas, a steadfast supporter of scientific luminaries like Faraday and Darwin, having served as assistant under-secretary, deputy under-secretary, and permanent under-secretary in departments of the Home Office and the Navy Department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the inaugural Cabinet Secretary and head of the civil service, the first graduate and most distinguished alumnus of our school. Please welcome Sir Arthur Hastings to deliver a speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of London.”
Arthur's gaze swept across the crowd before him, looking at the young faces and murmured, “Agares, what do you think I should say?”
The Red Devil's wraith hovered behind him, saliva almost dribbling from the corner of his mouth, “Look at these ignorant souls; they still worship you as a hero. Why not say something they'd like to hear?”
Arthur took a deep breath and let out a deafening roar, “Oxford is a bunch of whores' bastards!”
“Oh!!!!”
The audience erupted into thunderous applause.
“Cambridge is the same!” he added immediately.
The applause grew even more fervent...
(The protagonist, possessed by a devil, travels through 19th-century Britain in a world without magic)

The Shadow of Great Britain

Even the yelling of Coleridge was not the most grating, as another representative of the Lakeside Poets, Robert Southey, bluntly said, "Malthus is the favorite target of British critics, just as other waste outlets favor him."


These poets, who cherished moral standards and pastoral life, even coined the term 'Malthusianism' specifically to shame those who revered material life and were utterly deprived of a spiritual world.


Although being nicknamed by Southey was nothing unusual, after all, master namer Mr. Southey had also called Byron the 'chief of the Satanic school of poets' in "The Vision of Judgment" and lumped Shelley and others into the category of the 'Satanic school.'


But Byron and others at least had the support of a group of passionate youths, whereas Malthus was left with nothing but national curses throughout Britain.


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