It would not be interesting to here enumerate the various tortures employed by a barbarous people, but when we recollect the refinement of the art of torture in our own country in the days of the maiden, the boot, and thumb-screws, we will cease to wonder that substitutes for these should be used in a country where civilization has not yet begun to elevate a people who are generally allowed to be the lowest of the human race.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
They did not elevate the stage or create a better type, but encouraged old prejudices against the theatre generally; the theatre was left more and more to a section of the 'town,' and to the section which was not too particular about decency.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
"If my race be degraded," he said, quietly, "I try to elevate it by choosing you."
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn