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CH1VAIET IN COTTON. Ah amusing account o...
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A COPY OF SHAKSPEARE FOB K08SUTH. Hearti...
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THE TIMES " AT HOME." Mr. Thornton Hunt ...
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MII.ITA11Y COSTUMK. Tub letter of " Just...
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SOCIAL RBFOltM. ft 'r o " tO , th ° Rrea...
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Critics are not the legislators, but the...
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Is it not amusing to observe how reputat...
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THK PASSIONS OK ANIMALS. The Passions of...
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Thus, For The Trifling Sum Of Lod. Per M...
"lawsuit of saying a few shillings a week for ? £ adoption of the Life Assurance principle . It may i nbiected that the good is too prospective . But > hould be remembered that the calculation may LV staved at any point . The advantage to eralnvers were Life Assurance generally adopted by the industrial classes , we shall refer to in a future article . .
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Ch1vaiet In Cotton. Ah Amusing Account O...
CH 1 VAIET IN COTTON . Ah amusing account of the fervour among the " Men of Manchester , " not the People but the «• Men , " is sent to us n a private letter , apropos of the late Kossuth demonstration . Our highly intelligent correspondent informs s that Kossuth " had nearly driven the people mad . " « One sober and . substantial merchant , " continues the letter writer , " told me , that to hear Kossuth was to
become intoxicated—adding almost ruefully , ' he carried u" away in spite of our better judgment . We don't want a war and that is what he will lead to . ' No individual ever moved the people of Manchester to such a pitch before . It was like a national event . I wish you could have been here to seethe stesdy-going , business like men of M anchester losing nearly a whole day , and that a market day , for the sake of a man who was entirely unconnected with their material interests . "
With all due deference to our enthusiastic correspondent , Kossuth- is not entirely " unconnected with the material interests " of the Free-trade men of Manchester * B ut this " intoxication " is a good sign . Courage , O England ; there is Chivalry in Cotton yet !
A Copy Of Shakspeare Fob K08suth. Hearti...
A COPY OF SHAKSPEARE FOB K 08 SUTH . Heartily approving of Mr . Douglas Jerrold ' s happy suggestion , that a copy of Shakspeare , handsomely bound , and placed in a suitable casket , should be presented to Kossuth , paid for by a penny subscription set on foot for that purpose , we shall be glad to receive subscriptions at our office .
The Times " At Home." Mr. Thornton Hunt ...
THE TIMES " AT HOME . " Mr . Thornton Hunt has lately been lecturing on the topics of the week on a Sunday evening ; and , in order that this should be as widely known as possible , an advertisement was forwarded to the Times . It was duly received by the clerk , paid for , and inserted ? Not exactly—returned underlined as follows : — ^ THORNTON HUNT ' s LECTURE , To-morrow . •*¦ —Mr . Thornton Hunt ' s Second LECTURE on the Week will be delivered To-morrow ( Sunday ) Evening , in the (¦ re . it Lecture Theatre of the Western Literary Institution , 47 , Leicester-square , at 7 o ' clock precisely . It Will be a complete Summary of the Everts , Achievements , Spirit and Progress of the Week . Admission— to the / ront seats , Is . ; to the working classes , 3 d . ' 1 he second lecture of the eeries . sZ- ^^ -a-C'lZe -er . Thus we find that the Times excludes an advertisement , because a gentleman is named " Thornton Hunt , " because the words " to-morrow ( Sunday ) evening , " occur in the sentence ; and because the advertisers impudently use the terrible words " Spirit and Progress . " This was can ) ing matters a little too far in the way of personal obstruction . But the Times did not stop here . The message accompanying the above fac-si mile was that Mr . Hunt " might put it in his own paper" ; the fact being that Mr . Ilnnt ' s lectures have no connection with ' the paper" at all . A few days afterwards the Times wrote an eloquent leader to uphold the dignity of journalism !
Mii.Ita11y Costumk. Tub Letter Of " Just...
MII . ITA 11 Y COSTUMK . Tub letter of " Justitia , " in the Times of Thursday , on ilie transformation of dragoons " from Plungers into Lights , " and the expenses and inconvenience entailed « I ) 01 > officers by these changes , bespeak a real grievance . It may be a jest to civilians , a matter of high indifference to the Horse Guards ; but the facts set forth in tlu » gentleman ' s letter deserve attention . He tells us tl ' jit the change from " Heavy to Light " is often any-| J » J »_ K but what the words indicate : the lightness of the Lights " is a heavy lightness , a serious vanity : — liir ' l / b ( ! icvc lt would be found , if the equipments of a Kiu and a heavy dragoon were put into the balance , in l » ieot the contradiction the light would be found the bno 1 ° i UlC tW ° ' K ' li & ht CttViilry are encum-• <» with that useless though expensive appendage , the " mrucciue , from which thelieavy , are exempt . " <> w , docH not tho whole system of military costume it * " *""*** nvihiou ? Thl' I > »» ciple appears to \ m to be ; ad " ' ° < : xt : * * ° l > <> l > er mugnifienoK in proper places and ' J'tnctH , but to remember that the bebt qualities of uni-111 the manly—the aeiviccnble .
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SOCIAL RBFOltM . ft 'r o " , ° Rreat P rc 8 H of matter this week , especially lute J li a AtlJr
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Critics Are Not The Legislators, But The...
Critics are not the legislators , but the judges and police of literature . They do not make laws—they interpret and try to enforce them . —Edinburgh Review .
Is It Not Amusing To Observe How Reputat...
Is it not amusing to observe how reputations live in circles , larger or smaller , and are ignored beyond ? Victor Hugo wittily said , that Popularity was the " small change " of Fame : — " La popularity ? c'e 3 t la gloire en gros sous ! " but after all , there are pockets into which no sous enter , and the widest reputations are but larger cliques ! Incredible as it may appear , even Shakspeare s reputation is not universal among " educated ' ¦ ' people . What wonder , then , if we
alight occasionally upon a quidnunc who never heard of Dickens , or an Oxford Don who wants a " reference " as to Thackeray ? There is a story " going the round of the papers" to this effect . The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford , the Reverend Frederick Charles Plumptre , D . D ., on Thackeray ' s applying for permission to deliver in the University his brilliant course of Lectures on the Comic Writers , wished to know whether the great Titmarsh was a Dissenter , and whether Vanity
Fair had any connection with the Pilgrim ' s Progress ! He had never heard of Thackeray , nor of Vanity Fair , nor of Pendennis , though he had heard of Punch ( " but is not that a ribald publication ? " ) , and , % ially , desired a " reference as to character" before he could grant permission . The story is so good that we are almost reluctant to spoil its appreciation by declaring it not true ; we have , however , unquestionable authority for declaring it not true . Nevertheless , it is so true that it ought to be true !
We have known analogous instances , and strange it seems that men whose lives are supposed to be devoted to learning—men who are at the head of a great educational Institution from whence English youth are to issue into the world—should thus ignore the moving , acting influences of our Literature , should become as Churchill says , —
" Learn'd without sense , and venerably dull " poring over the frivolities of the past , and disregarding the present . . To read the Satyricon of Petronius , and revel in Bur ^ iann's notesthereon doubtless seems an employment worthy of an immortal soul , and one becoming a Doctor of Divinity . The dirt ? Latin refines it . Corruption ? Antiquity embalms it . But to read Vanity Fair or Pendennis with their piercing insight into life , with their wit , elegance , pathos , delicacy , such as no Latin book known to us can equal , to read these would be wasting time on "frivolities . "
Let it be granted so ; let exaggerated reverence place the literature of antiquity on a pedestal of any height you please , we still point to the fact that the Classics are praised , the Moderns are read . Martial drew the same distinction in favour of his epigrams as contrasted with "imposing" works : — " Ilia tamen laudant omiics , mirantur , adorant , Coniiteor : luudunt ilia , sed ista legunt . " and inasmuch as they are read , reread , quoted , imitated admired , inasmuch as they form a decided influence
in the Literature of our day , it is indefensible in any man assuming an educational position not to make himself acquainted with these works . If bad , their evil influence should be thwarted ; if good , their excellence should be shown to belong to the same category as that which we name classical . But why argue the point ? Ha-s not Oxford always manifested the same claustral indifference to the moving influences of the nge , from the time
when ( Jiokdano Hitr ; no challenged her toditiditsH tho doctrine of the curth ' H rotation , to the present day , when her most active intellects uro wanting themselves on the theology and metaphysics of the Middle Ages ? Has she not justified Sydnky SMiTii'flsarcaHmof carningthe distinction of always being behind tho age ? Could Thackkray have antedated by a few centuries hi ' s appearance on our p lanet , and from that epoch have Jeft us a equub
quarto Titmarshius Be Snobilitate , he would have counted Oxonion Doctors among his admirers ; nay , even among his laborious commentators ! for your ancient author is nothing without a commentary—which , as Goethe slyly says , no one thinks of bestowing on a modern , however much he may need it ! " Denn bei den alten lieben Todten Braucht man Erklarung , -will man Noten ; Die Neuen glaubt man blank zu verstehn , Doch ohne Dollmetsch wird ' s auch nicht gehn . "
In The Last Number Of The Rambler There ...
In the last number of the Rambler there is a review of the " Relation between Rationalism and Communism , " by the Abbe Gerbet , to which we call attention . The abbe means to discredit the freedom of Reason by showing its necessary connection with Communism . " " We have beheld , " he says , " during these last three centuries , developing itself in different degrees among all civilized nations , a principle to which the
name of Rationalism has been given . According to this principle , each man can reasonably admit as truths those things alone of -which he acquires the proof directly , by means of his own conceptions . In our day we have seen the beginning of the evolution of another principle , according to which each man can retain as his lawful possession those things alone the enjoyment of which he obtains through his own labour . This principle is the foundation of what is called Communism . "
Our readers will accept the consequences without flinching , and thank the abbe for his clear definition . But one of the amusing contradictions of the anti-Socialist writers is their incessantly objecting to the Socialist doctrine that it is an ancient chimeera , and is , nevertheless , a " dangerous novelty . " Apropos of its antiquity , Mr . Salisbury , of Boston ( United States ) , has recently unveiled it in an unsuspected quarter . In his Translation of two unpublished Arabic Documents
relating to the Doctrines of the Ismailis , we see a Socialist on the throne of Persia . Mazdak , the Persian Communist , raised a sect towards the end of the fifth century , which Co bad protected and finally joined . But kings have sons , and Cobad was succeeded by Khoskoes , surnamed the Just , who , in virtue of his surname , earned the applause of all les Men pensans by hang-ing a hundred thousand of the sect in one day ! We have no doubt that the " party of order" in France would exclaim , on hearing this , heurcux Parses /
We cannot quit this subject of Utopias without presenting our readers with the admirable definition given by Proudhon the other day in his letter to Gihardin : — " The counter-revolutionists , in other terms the Utopis / s , are those who pretend either to keep society immovable in its present form , or to exelude from its bosom all their antagonists , or finally to throw society into systems which have no connection with its traditions . "
The first portion is an echo of the noble sentence from Arnold we have placed as the epigraph to our Public Affairs ; the last sentence in aimed at FouiierustH , Owenitcs , and other fabricators of society it priori .
Thk Passions Ok Animals. The Passions Of...
THK PASSIONS OK ANIMALS . The Passions of JlniniaLt . IJy Kdwaid I ' . TlmtiipHon . Chapman and Hull . Last week we pointed out the necessity of studying lAl ' c in its simpler manifestations before beginning to study it in the complex organism of Man . The same principle holds good in the study of Mind , though most psychologists would wtiirc at such a proposition ; as well they might , with their notions on the independence of psy < lx ) logy and physiology , and their . scornful denial of tho attributes of Mind to animals ! For centuries they have been accustomed to clas , s all the mental
phenomena of brutes under tin ; v . igne t . t'ini of instinct , foolishly imagining that a distinction in terms implied a distinction in fact , hihJ ; s ( ill more foolishly imagining that they " degr / ided man to the level of the brute" if they recognized mental qualities in the brute . O yo of littl « f »« t « ! Animals exhibit K « ason , Judgment , Memory , Imagination , Causality , Jlojic , Love , Untied , Terror , Fidelity , —almost all tho faculties of man , though many <» f them in a leaser degree ; yet instead of studying thene fueultieu in animals , mate-ad
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1851, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111851/page/13/
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