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864 1HB I'BA-deb. [No. 337, SATOMMv.
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THE ORTHODOX MOON. In these days, probab...
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THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S NEIGHBOUR...
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lavmg those ia my arms -who once loved me , and if they are as true as those wlo they once sent me word that I lad bo respeefc for them , but I only hope that they zespect me n » much as I respect them , and tlen I am sure they lore me . I have not had the pleasure of kissing those sweet lips of yours lately but I hope I shall once zaore hare that honour . —My dear Ann , I lemain yotlfs extreme and affectionate lover , : J . Dance . P . 8 , I Lava not shown much affection to you as yet , Imfc I hope you "will please to forgive me , that I may see Ton soon , and I shall see those who I love .
There is something exquisitely ludicrous if you read it in the tone that would usually be given to such tvords , when the young gentleman remarks that he has " not had the pleasure of kissing those sweet lips of yours lately , but I hope I shall once more have that lionour . " But it is not probable that John Dance would have uttered those words in -the tone which we usually give to them . "When he used the word ' honour , ' it is clear that he intended to express a deep feeling of
respect for the girl whom Hs relationship , his long acquaintance , his instincts , his ; eafceem for her character made him love the more . Clearly Dance perceived the qualities of the girl to whom he had thus given hia heart . The more frightful , it woxild seem , that those lips , which in imagination he had appropriated to himself should be appropriated to others ; tbafc the return for which he ¦ 'Would , have paid his existence should "be deided to him and granted elsewhere .
There was , of course , a reason for the rejection of the lover , and one is palpable on the face of his own composition . He proved that he preferred love to life ; he was a man therefore ^ of strong passions and of vehement , perhaps imperious will ; bat he laboured under an incapacity of making his strong emotions , his true devotion , intelligible . "We
can spell out his feeling and intent from his acts and from this crude composition ; but without the lurid light thrown , upon , the letter by the tragedy , we could only have laughed at the foolish style . How nauch of the inconapetency and misery of life lies in the incapacity for working out the ideas or the feelings which are witljiu . us . There is no man more accursed than lie who
carries a giant , whatever the spirit of that giant may be , within the frame of a dwarfa great passion within the restraints of a petty and a feeble utterance . It often happens that such natures are rendered , more unhappy by the incredulity which they encounter . John Dahcb knew his own passion ; in his words it became a ludicrous burlesque , and the more he tried to persuade , the less he could , be believed . The one thing that might have helped him would
have been education ; it' might have taught him better to word his owni autography ; it might liave enlarged his ova ideas , and have gifted , his suppressed passion with a , some- * , what enlarged utterance . And even Anne Baku , enlightened by a "broader spread of knowledge , might have learned to see through the moral impediments of speech , and if still rejecting her maladroit suitor , to reject hi m with tliat greater recognition of a strong passion that soothes under repulsion .
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The Orthodox Moon. In These Days, Probab...
THE ORTHODOX MOON . In these days , probably , we should not burn John Huss , or refuse Christian Imrial to Q-axixio . Both GUliieo and John Htjss , however , might be exposed to a good deal of impertinent persecution if the one were not a profoBBed ecclesiastic , or the other a proteased astronomer . Here ia Mr . J : ei , mngeb S \ t i * e tuapector of Schools , who has published an opinion that the mooA does not rotate on her « k . WitK cfc to the moon wo have nothing to say . Ve are not certain whether she evolves axially , or orDitally , and liavo no conviction iu favour of
the old or the new hypothesis . All that concerns us is the spirit in which Bfr . Symons ' s proposition has been received . He put it originally in the form of an inquiry , and there is certainly little encouragement to speculative investigation : in the manner in which his question was answered . A number of persons at once came forward to insult the heretic . Some were savage , others only meant to he witty . Almost all-intruded scoffs and mockeries into the discussion .
CoiFMBirs was not more bitterly jibed sit by the councillors of Salamanca . Mr . "W . Hopkins , of whom we wish to speak with all respect , talked of his * scientific horror '—and ridiculed Mr . Symons ' s vanity . Dr . IiARDNEB , setting an excellent exam ple , admitted that the astronomer ' s side of the argument stood in need of clearer exposition than it had received , from him or any one else . * A
Cambridge Wrangler , ' writing in anonymous supremacy , betrayed a little ignorance , or something worse , by referring Mr . JEiiiNaEB to ' a Mr . Stmons , ' and recommended that gentleman to understand ' subjects taught in school-books . ' But the blow from Cambridge was not half so overwhelming as the blast from liineoln ' s Inn , where some melancholy dtist-eater had sat , five days , plotting a joke , as follows : *— " American naturalists tell of a
certain owl who had so obstinate a habit of staring , that the sportsman need only engage his . attention for a few minutes , and then walk steadily round him , and the deluded victim will quickly wring his own neck and fall a prey to perseverance in liis own -view of the subject . " This conscious jester , signing himself * Mooncalf , ' proceeded to interpret his parable by proposing to Mr . Symons the performance of some unintelligible experiment which would " infallibly sprain his wrist , and doom him to dictate to an amanuensis his next answer to the ' science' and
' sarcasms' of the ptiblic . " Professor T . M . GtOodeve also , we are sorry to say , lost his temper so far as to taunt Mr . Symoits with t imperfect education , ' and advised him to " retire into a distant part of the country and betake himself vigorously to the study of applied mechanics . " A second ¦ ' Wrangler' thought it decent to pity the ' ordinary and uninteresting infirmity' of the Inspector of Schools , whom he wittily and witheringly styled the ' patient' of the Times newspaper . Even 'Cam , ' who exhibited a little seriousness , could not apply himself to the discussion without a preliminary insinuation of disrespect . ' S ., ' without being flippant or sarcastic , was nervously orthodox , ' Cantabrigiensis'
compassionately pert , but ' E . IB . D . ' composed a number of melancholy commonplaces about demonstrations that would be clear to ' the stupidest boy' in a school ? but which were puzzlers to Mr . Symons . These letters did not complete the quarrel—for quarrel it became , though the Inspector of Schools , we are bound to sny , argued in general with good-huinour and moderation . At the recent meeting of the British Association , he was interrupted while reading a paper , some of his opinions raised an uproar , and one reverend gentleman afterwards boasted of having assisted in creating the disturbance because lie could not endure to hear his favourito science ' murdered' by Mr .
SrMONS . Now , we conceive this is not the right way to meet an objection on a scientific point , seriously advanced by a anan of character , education , and position . Repeating that upon the question at issue we have no opinion to offer , we cannot refrain from an expression of regret that the temper of our times admits of such unseeml y treatment bestowed upon a controverted point in astronomy . That the certainty claimed by tho largo body of
astronomers does not exist is proved by the fact that Mr . Symons has his partizans amo ™ ' scientific men .. ' s It is the old story . The old spirit of per secution works as it worked in other days JvV are-many of us-as bitter against doubters as when orthodoxy was enforced by the whip of the beadle . But is science advanced in this way ? Is the Inspector of
Schools more easily confuted ' when ' Mooncalf' hurls at him a silly jolce , or when ' A Cambridge "Wrangler' displays that sort of dogmatism which , our Scarhon says , is " puppyism cometo maturity ? " One other consideration may be suggested : " What if Mr . Symons should be in the Tight , and the asbronomers in the wrong ?
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There is no learned maa but -will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , "his senses awakened , and bis judgment sharpened . If , then it be profitable for him to read , why should it not least . betolerablefor his adversary to write J—IVIilto 1 *
The Archbishop Of Canterbury's Neighbour...
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S NEIGHBOURS . ( To the Editcr of the Leader . ') Sib , —Haying read your article on the Society for Improving the Dwelling Houses of the Poor , I beg to call your attention , and through you the attention of that beneyolent Society , to the Archbishop of Canterbury ' s neighbourhood . I am sure the people of Vauxkail , 8 ouiii Lambeth , -. and the WandswoiHTi-road will be very grateful if you can spur that benevolent Society to work any improvement , this being their only road to town . I have been a resident in Lara"beth ten years , and , on reading your article on Clark ' s-buildings , I vent to see if they were as bad as our " lack slums . " Why , thosebuildings . areEdens compared with the haunts round Xambeth Palace .
High-Street , Broad-street ,. Princess-street , and Fore-street , or the ' lack slums , ' axe all in aline with the river from the Palace-walk to the Taxixhall Station . On leaving Palace-walk , and crossing in front o the church , you come to a little narrow street , full of filthy hovels , nearly -windowlcss , and in some cases doorless , intermixed at tlie further end with a few factories for crushing old drainpipes , making soap , baking bricks , & c . This street leads into Broad-street , and into the water if the tide is high ; if low , you see the offal that has Icen left there by the last high water . The effect upon your nose I need not describe . You cross this street , but , before doing so , looking straight liefore you is
Porestreet , the haunt of soap-boilers , bone-crushers , rosin and pitch factors , tho Tarious odours from which are of the most horrible description . Look a little to the left—there stands a batch of abominnWe sheds , for they are not houses . Peep into the passage of either , and the atrocious fumes will tell you how dirty and miserable are the inhabitants within , some of whom may be seen , in the morning at the upstairs windows almost naked . A little further to tho left you come to Princess-street . Hero are more factories , and worse than in any of the others . The stench on entering this street ia truly awful . In the
summer months disgusting odours breed such quantities of vermin that it is impossible to move without crushing them ; and when tho wind blows the smoke over the Btreet , great drops of steam from "the bonefactories fall in your face . Ilere are potteries , in which immense furnaces are kept for baking bricks , factories for melting grease , making candles , boiling tho grease out of bones , & c . Ac . There are also flour-mills , starch-mills , two or three distilleries , and near the end are the largo gas-works , opposite which are a few model lodging-houso , vbich naturally aro all but tcnantless . On cither side of this Btteet , and in tho little courts between the factories , aro the dwelling-houses of the poor , all of the same description , but w orse , if possiblo , than those at tho end of Broad-street . Such is the neighbourhood of tho Archbishop ot Canterbury ^ " who enjoys tho pleasure of an open space before his residence . Tho people that hvo hero aro all honest , hardworking people , whose comfort should be seen to . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , One of the ARcirnisiior of Canterbury ' s 1 Kiiioiinouna . ¦ Durluua-Btreot , Kcnmngton , Oval , Sept . 2 , 1800 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1856, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06091856/page/14/
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