1860s viewpoints

[Chris Pickford]

*Reasons for installing bells* (from a local newspaper editorial, 1863)

... because the bells will throw their pleasant sounds to a great 
distance, charming the ear by their special melody with its 
memory-bringing faculty, and leading up to profitable musing and 
pleasant thoughts ... We are not campanologically scientific, and so 
cannot enlarge on the glories of bell-ringing, but we are as pleased as 
other men at the solemn harmonies which these great ministers of sound 
awaken

*Reasons for installing a chiming apparatus* (from an advertisement, c.1866)

... Unmanageable ringers are got rid of.

Two rather interesting and contrasting Victorian viewpoints, of similar 
date - the first bizarrely sentimentalist, the second delightfully blunt 
and ruthless!

-- 
Chris Pickford
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