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* Da Spiritual/*,^ On Jieonomie Pouuqw, ...
throughout the various illustrations which he gives' of" his . new theory , especially when we consider the vast extent of the ground over which he takes us ; but we must say that we have very seldom seen the matter-of-fact details of a science generally deemed dull and hidden , elucidated in a more interesting-manner ,, or clothed under a more attractive and elegant style . M . Rondelet grapples boldly with all the difficulties of his subject : at the very first page he finds himself arrested by that momentous problem . the riff fitto labour-- " le droifc au travail , "—which has formed the programme of all modern socialist teachers . Here , as throughout the other chapters of his book , he does not start from the discussion ot . facts , but asserting the unchangeable ' truth of the moral law ., he shows very clearly that the only " method , of dealing with the matter is to establish at first what is ' tho true end of life ; this being once ascertained , will necessarily lead to right conceptions respecting-theiiature of hereditary propertylabourand production . ¦
, , Some of our author ' s remarks are excellent in point both of style and of moral truth ; we would notice more particularly bis dist-inf * - tion between true or lawful and false or spurious luxury , imd his chapter on what he designates as la cmisonimat-ion rfa / if / erciixe ; that is to say , on those articles of supply which correspond to the most degraded propensities of our nature . Alluding to the sale of intoxicating . drinks , ' of cards , Ac , M . Rondelet characterises the surveillance exercised over such branches of industry by Government as being not a whit less immoral than would be flic avowed sanctioning-of them . The provocation of example , he sins , is one
of the most serious of social evils / and . it-ought not to be poi-mittou under any shape whatever . Why , for instance , slibulil a man in a state of intoxication not be punished as violating the laws of public decency ? Why should we have to wait for the purpose of interfering with him , till he has struck a passer-by , or cpminhted smne other positive nuisance ? This question is by no means the .-. l . nos . t inipm 1 - tant one which M . Rondelet raises , as a glance at pages 27 ( 5 and 277 will show , but we must content ourselves-with ' this mere allusion to social difficulties , the . solution of which , at the . presci . t tinie at least . seems quite .. impossible .
The work we havejust attempted to ( lescriue 1 * excellent . , and it deserves all the success which it has obtained : but iM . H-oiidfU'l ' s task would only behalf accomplished if , together with aii c . r-juv / c ^ o treatise , he had not composed a more popular statement of the same doctrines adapted , to the perusal of that class of renders who are generally frightened by the appearance ? of didactic-works . It is , ho ' - " -doubt , exceedingly important to elbseminate sound views on political economy amongst those who have . ' to a certain -extent in their hands the destinies of society . --. Hut it isr perhaps , still ir pro essential that these views should be brought -within the reach i > f the working classes ; generally so open to every transient impression , so acce & sible . to . the destructive influence of sophisms presented in a plausible and attractive form . The ' ¦ Meinoires d'Antoine " seems to us particularly calculated to supply the desideratum , containing as they do , under the garb of an entertaining story , a thorough examination of the leading questions which form the . subject i ' or the
discussion of political economists . Antpine , the hero of the talo , is an intelligent workman , who , trained up to the trado of a carpenter , has been in turns an apprentice , then an ourrier , finally a master in his craft , and who / by his industry , his honesty , and his ability , has at last attained the proud position of mayor of his native village . Thus circumstanced , he states the history of his own life , and enforces for the benefit of others the useful lessons which he had derived from the various circumstances amidst which ho has been thrown . Besides the instructions expressly relating to political economy , M . Iiondelot's charming littlo novel contains also hints on subjects of more general interest , and . which rcadoru of every class of society anight profitably meditate . The following 1 paragraph selected from the chapter entitled , * ' J ) e « Mauvnisos 'Lectures , * ' is a forcible and lanientably true description of the common , run of French novels : —
" No one would attempt to justify the habit of keeping company with dishonest people ; and what other epithet but that of diHhone . it . can be applied to those writers who , , under the pleti of making you spend a few pleasant inomonts , insensibly accustom you to think about a thousand different thingfi which ought , to mnko you blunh ; filling with vice , with crimo > with ignominy the world of their own creation , and then endeavouring to represent it as tho reality ; writers who , from . beginning ' to end , preach against virtue , extol vi <«> , show the honourable man fulling ' a victim to his duty , and find a thousand impossible circumstances to excuse tho wicked , loading him to consider his sufferings a « ho many imjunt visitations uyiuiiHt which he is quite authorised to seek a remedy in revolt . Tlniu our feelings become blunt ; the deeds which at first roused our
indignation appear very soon perfectly natural" .... And by tho timp you have reached , the third' volume you mlmit , uh a mutter of courso , or at least as tolorable , tho details which , in the first , Hyenieil to you perfectly revolting . " wo-uro sorry to have wo soon to take loavo of M . A . Komlolot , but wq muwt say a few wowhj of another book on political pconoiny , J \ l . du Collier ' s' " Uistoiro des ( Masses Laborious . 1 " 1 The ¦ proftrmnmo of this volume , is thus explained by the author : ' . J ' ai ewsayo do retracor a travel ' s los clix hpuf siocloH ocoidos dppuis la oonqucto do Cesar , le sort dx * a oIiishoh vouoos , au travail , lour dovoloppomont moral pt intelleptuol , lp part qu'olios out prise aux ovonenumts do notrohistoiro pt nuvprogros tip optto civiliHation qui oat lo putrinioino io la Erancp ontipro . ' T / ho' nuhjcot oxnminod by M . du OolUov has , tys wp sop ftt onco , an , liiwtoriQal ruthor tliauapliilosophieal eharaetor j iH » pnp of ., thp most ! important , onos connootod with tho
dovplonincnt of French civilization , and if examined m all its bearings it would reach far beyond the proportions of an octavo volume . M . du Cellier very wisely limits himself to the consideration of one feature in the account he" gives us of the . labouring classes ; he merely studies them in their relations with the authority of the country , uncl he appreciates principally the various administrative acts bv which the existence of that branch of the community , their positions , their duties , and their rights have been from time to time defined and regulated . . It is not too n'uich to say that a work like the One we are now alluding to . is quite as essential and calculated to do <[ uiteas much good , " as the two volumes already mentioned of M . Ilondelet . For if sophists and mob-orators have endeavoured to --mislead thy labouring classes by presenting to them erroneous theories on political oconomv , they have also , and . perhaps even more successfully , attempted ' to bring about , the same result by repeating U > them < id nausea in . that the whole history of France , from the times
of Julius C ' tesar downwards , is nothing but a long martyrology in which Jacques Bonhomme , the unfortunate prolctairc workman , serf , villein , bondsman , appears -uniformly sacrificed to the tyrarinv . of hard hearted , iniquitous masters . This is a gross misrepresentation ofhistorv ; but as , M . du Cellier very clearly shows , the bouraeiiixic have very ' little reason to . complain , in this particular instiinee . If . socialist ' writers and Red Kc-publican publicistsdistort tin ; fh-ts of history to stir up the p : issions of the nvob againstthc jjiuluie-elassi's . ' may we not , in our turn , blaine ' certain historians of the " 7 jot ! r' / roi . tic " adopted the Voltairean point of view for
o-ivin " the pompous , but , in their case , the lying title , of Jlfxtoir . e 7 l <> > V < 7 />> v-to lomr . mllated , tedious tinules against kings , priests , jina ' n-obhV ? . : \ f .. du tVIlier" . at any rate , has carefully avoided this del ' W ' t ¦ : his work is written in the / most coi ' . seieiitious nnumer . and 1-ho ' fi . nlv ¦ f : r . il-t we can find ' with it is . that notes ^ and references to ori-iuai < V ) --ui " . eiits invnot' plentiful enougli ... The ' common defect ( . ) nit < t « : r : ; iMs- ' i >; to make too -rent a display of tlicir erudition ; 31 . ch-t-Oi ? llior li-n-s ' - we ¦ thiii . k ... gunc- . to the other extreme ; ami a ft ? w (| ii « hvtio-. js h-nii' oliicial papers and leyislative nia < -tmont . s . nwjjlii have lu-jnMv : lv : iii'tagconsly interspersed .
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FOREIGN CDRUKSPO ^ DEXCK . ¦ ' . ' ¦ SKKC'l-VL . ' - .: . , . ITaxuvkij , -Nov .. 8 , 1800 .- - ' . O PINIONS are nob niixchdivided as to the value to be sot upon the concessions made by the Austrian Government to the Hungarian ]> oople , for the Edict of tho . 2 Ofhiil ' t . touclies Hungary almost i . loP . J , andis neither more nor less than an attempt to cpnciliftte that important part of Hie Empire . 'JMie ( JennanA-ustnan countri . ^ are liarJly mentioned ; not awordoi Venetianor ( . allicia .
Nor - is this surjitising . - The . last mentioned province is a mere lif-olosa map , perfectly passive in the . hands of deHpotism and perniittinff itself to be treated just as circuinsta . nce . i render it convenient . Vciiotia is regarded no doubt asau inimical province that no amount of favour or extent of concessions over would soothe into content and friewlship ; and , as for the German provinces , they arc not so dangerous that the Government' should care about deprecating their wrath . Hungary , unlike any German country , has been these years past seriously and actively at work ioi itinto which
demption from the political slavery V'T y An \ w one hand , riiid sentiment on tho other , had placed her . All tlmt the Hungarians have boon doing theso years pa . st has been dom , darkly as it wopo , owing to tho total eclij » so of the . r ., language and litomturcl . ythobcm-ian clement , or say rath ^ ^ ^ J "g propa-uiKla . . By tho raoagro i . utices extracted from " «»{?«"" papera ,. tholettoioJ ! oorrospbucUjuts , and traveller ., wg uvc con thnttho notation in Hungary has never for an i ) i » lant ceased & mce 18-H 8 , and the succcading years of reaction . Where they oouW not piww their discontentTby deeds they have by pro testa , d »> stood of being iuihni . uite-d by suing their ] , uhheal loaders * ^ away to dfatuufr . fuvtiwsoH , they liavo-otfltiito « l ll »« 1 » OTO ; ; X { im ' Tl-i / lliinffnri . ii . a . bv thoir bmvory and self-saprificmg imtuol ^ ra .
havo gained tho VWwlodginunN if not luduea tUo ^ "J" ^" their rights and liberties , whilo tho other provinces , mow ^ 3 the QemiA province , J . ave . been pasHod over with the con un t which their polilioul supinenesa dosorvcl . Tho dwoontwuL on u <¦ part of tho Gorman iwo »» genoraUy is vor . v gKput , not ¦ U ^ at a > iu " value is sot upon this eo-oallod now C ' onstitutuw , whioh . wonnyic gai-d as thefpurth that J . as boon proclaimod within tho yah t > o u > years , butbeoaiiso tho llungnviaus havoby \ t beoonjo tho loati u nation of tho Jdnpiro . 11 if curious to refer to Uioullionil Jouuwte of former years , and to mid tho fin © pUrasea with wine cat new Constitution was usborod into oxisttmoo , and lion o ^ u _ Count' Bkcjibhug ' s cirpular , uddreBsod to the dxJlcront . ^ ° ^ , moats of Oorniany , noquaiiiting thorn with thp vast and 'J ) t 11 ' 1 ohniiKQ which Wbouii ^^ introduced . Tho firs t , of tho now C ib tutionaof tho last ton years was ootroyerl , that ? h , conootloa , » his own good will awl ]) loa 8 uro , by tho ^ inporov h kh . wJ ;^ ) g ^ AprU ,.. l & 8 , and had i ' o / its objoi-t tho union , as . a CJ 01 b 1 Uitionai State , of thp ., Gorman feOoral i : » rovi ' necs with Galhouv , tlxo Jjujo wina , and Dalraatia , by whioh union Hungary and fcommi <> intouwu
Vonotia wovo to bo hold isolated , mid yet ¦ foiw . P' »^ JUmpU-e . . For somo months , in acaovduuoo with tho ljW . fJ ! , "" "' thafc Oonstltubion , a UqtehBtng . or Diet hold its Hitting ^ > K \' Xhira GonBt 4 bution \ vnBj howwov , soon doolavod to bo lull * f 0 ^™ nnd . qulqtly . oonniffnoa to oblivJu . n , to tho no groat gi-iw « JW politipM pftvty . . fhompinbovaQl ' tho ^ iol ! , qu Wm wy t to . uwij npnie , s wwo improssea wMh tho belief -tJuHi the ftiUuro , ort"O ^* etWiia was « W attributable to « v , w « it tf political oduc ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1860, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10111860/page/10/
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