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Mpdexin Conventionalism , * Directed Aga...
Fatalism—that curse of curses ? It is no fact of the universe , but it is the gradual stirr-eiider of our individuality to the sway of circumstances ! One apostle of truth after another drops , in these days , into the devouring gulf of circumstances . A so 6 ial reformer , of some eminence and of Unquestionable benevolence , went so far as to declare that man is the mere creature of circumstances . The decorous English world blasphemed him as a blasphemer , for merely putting into distinct and intelligible words its own creed . ^ If men were in degrading servitude to the pith , the fulness , the vitality of the past , there would be little to say . A Hying past is so much in harmony with a living present ; that they may be regarded as one . But men now are the l « prpus helots to the mere letter of the past .
The prophet , as the teacher and . redeemer of mankind , has no ancestors . He speaks what the Holy Ghost within him speaks . Well for him if he does not even knovv that there has ever been a prophet on the earth before . Our author is certainly no prophet but he is useful in proving what the prophet should be . Whejran author devotes a solid , substantial duodecimo to anathematising social mischiefs , to sympathizing with social miseries , then refers- . always to the sacred oracles , —meaning a score or two-of fragments written we' know not when or by whom , and armed with no more auth ority than their intrinsic worth confers and commands , we marvel much whether the said author has ever found out that it was not the sight of food which first gave him his appetite for his
dinner ^ Wishing to part on good terms with the writer of this volume , Who , though clever and critical , sharp and shrewd ; has much to learn as thinker , writer , worshipper , man . ' we take the liberty of informing him that there have been other sacred oracles besides those of the Jews ; other mysteries besides those fulminating through the clouds of Mount Sinai . ; other miracles besides those render ing Palestine a Holy iLund . Seeing that , all external revelatipes are equally credible or incredible , we are compelled to turn to the God within ; arid the God ¦ within- teaches us that when fools , or knaves , or cravens lay on onr shoulders the burden of their conventional laws and conventional customs , our duty , our destiny is fro forget the past i and to shout to creation that oneindividuality—¦ Oriivowiv— -still survives .
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TEMPER OF THE ERENpH . rpHERE are few of the French departments with which we are not X familiar , and in some , seventy or eighty of them—first ,, seeon d , and third-rate towns—it lias been bur tot to sojourn for some time diiring the lust few years ; not , we believe , without . gathering something more of the- real , feeling of France towards England than ea . 11 be picked up by ordinai-y Parisian correspondents , who collect the on dits of the capital ,-and ' - ' often do not give themselves the trouble of even examining the departmental journals . To speak briefly , we have done this without-detecting in France , generally , much of the intense ill-feeling , or those inextinguishable memories of Waterloo which -many believe io exist , waiting for an outbreak , sooner or later , only to be quenched by war . Almost without exception , we have , found the mercantile and middle classes most anxious for peace , and for a good understanding between the two countries ; the peasantry indifferent , with far more envy of the neighbouring field , if better than their own , than of the prosperity of their , rieighbour nation ; and with far more dread of additional conscription and taxation than of Derbys and PAtMEitstoNS . Where we met with ill feeling , it was often the result of the most absurd and unfounded rumours . Few Englishmen have any idea of the ridiculous nature of these , or of the extent to . which they run amoug-afc our neighbours . Wo will give two instances . A Jbancer of the Cfuard informed us that it was the general belief of a large portion of the French army , when in Italy , that vast money subsidies bad been sent from England to ^ tho Austrian camp * This -report had spread like wildfire throughout the French quarters , producing the inost violent irritation ; and we . had the greatest difficulty , though aided by * some of his own countrymen , in convincing 1 him of the lolly of any such rumour . This nonsense is only equalled , or surpassed , by a statement made to us by a French professional man of liiore than ordinary intelligence on most points , that the X'Yonch E } mperor was entirely indebted for-. 'his'first-success to tho generosity of Queen . Victoria ; and that ho liad nnulo hia first alt-oin-pts at supremacy with pockets filled with Enyliah gold . Wo may blunder sometimes on this side ' , of tho Channel , but such ridiculous reports as these , begotten by mischief or ignorance—and ' there may be scores of themcould scarcely for t \ yo drive op-exist , with an enlightened and 1 iberal press ; and we commend this to the attention of our neighbours , with tho additional remark , that if tho saino care were taken about their suppression that is sometimes exercised by the police about move tripling matters , even such nonsense fts this would not bo allowed to do its modicum of miaohief . That there has been move ill humour in tlio Capital than in tho departments we do not dony . Tho French ,. when they have much intortfourse , soon talk themselves into a paroxysm , and , trunks to their mobility , which nets both ways , as soon forgot it . Oiu contemporaries seem scarcely to roinembor what a few years bnok passed ; and paaaod over , without serious results . In the latter ycara of t , b . at lung who wad culled the , policeman of JSuropo , when Ijoujs NapotjBON was only enacting ' the part of npeoial policeman in St . James ' s , wo have the following- entries in the diary of a resident in Paris : — ' " All Frenoh soeiety Ss for war . " " The mob attacked Itord Granville ' s carriage , crying , * a . b « e lo « Anglais , " and , the M wnioipal Guard had to proteot him . "
French Emperor ; tlie indecent yells of triumph in an English court of law on the acquittal of a man concerned in a ruthless massacre of innocent people , of whom the Empress might have been one ; and the refusal of England to bear a hand in the Italian campaign-rand , strange to say , the last of the three seems to have been the most offensive to the ouvrier class , who are the most noisy and menacing . This we gathered often enough from their own mouths , and from the owner of a cabaret much frequented by the ouvriers , who , according to his accounti were for war with England , almost to a man . We have heard equally hostile language , and scarcely more polite , from the mouths of the aristocratic extreme of French society , but that is an old grudge , far less darjgerous > which has smouldered so long that it may smoulder still .
^ English scholars are driven out of the schools by the ^ Frencli ones . - - . ' ¦¦ '¦ ¦ .- ¦ . - ¦ . ¦¦ . ¦ ' . ' ¦ ¦ > ' ' ¦ ¦ " The French Cabinet was divided ; four for war , and four for peace . - ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦' ¦ . ' ; ¦ : ' .. . ¦ ¦ We have only taken the liberty of slightly abbreviating these efttries of Mr . Raikeb , and we commend them to alarmists , toshow what we have tided over , when the . memory of Waterloo was some few years fresher than it is now ; in fant , jealous neighbours may go on , decade after decade , growling and / showing their teeth without biting-, as History cannot help showing , fond as she is of confining her views to the details of downright and practical quarrel . The main causes of recent dissatisfaction in Paris have been the indefcitigable ad capiandum attacks of a large portion of the English press on tlte
As to the army , we do not see , with the firm hand which at piesent bridles it , why it may not be made to acquiesce in peace as well as our own , which is certainly quite as fond of fighting , though , perhaps , not quite so fond of glory ; though we have , it must be confessed , more of the amusement and change of colony service—to me n of active minds and bodies no bad substitute for fighting . That a large proportion of the officers of the French army—that those of the soldiers who Lave voluntarily cominitted themselves to a life of military service instead of merely to their eight years ; of conscription—that the Zouaves , those enfans gate ' s ,-pets of Parismay have a chronic desire for war , and especially for War with Engadd of the soldiers
land , we do not deny ; and we may , perhaps , many of the Guard , as more fully imbued with the military spirit ; though amongst these classes we have certainly found exceptions ; indeed , tin instance of a Zouave just occurs to us , whom we met at La Grande Chartreuse , in Diuiphiny , arid who said that such'had been the trenEment which he and some of his comrades had received from English officers in the ' . Crimea * . that . lie would as soon fight for an Englishman as a Frenchman . Another of these heroes , whom a Paris ouvriev on the grand entre ' e of the troops was endeavouring to stimulate by a prophecy of war with England , declined seeing any reason for i 6 whatever . There is , we believe and trust , a good deal of this leaven even in the most , warlike part of the French army , though not quite
enough of it . . Of the ordinary soldier of the line , who \ yould often buy himself out if he could afford it , who leaves his family and his employment with reluctance , and looks to the termination of his service with pleasure , the case is very different . It is true and creditable to him that he bears himself as bravely in the field as those who , having im ' appetite for war , have made themselves soldiers , and continued so of their own free will—a fact little considered when French troops are compared with English ; b ut it is abaurd to suppose that this man has projprio niQtU any earnest desire for war with England , or , indeed , for war at all ; and . there are circumstances uuder which he would have the greatest objection to it . :
Our political economists , iu viewing the question of tho reduction of the duties on French wines , seem scarcely to have thought of this special effect which such a measure , whether , on other grounds . desirable or not , would be likely to have , on a Very large portion of the French army ' ' — the sons and brothers of the vyine-growiny : families in France . A young Frenchman ' s family feeling ia almost ; as strong as his national one . Wkaxa ^ l , the historian of the House of Valois , has said that this family affection is one of the few virtues'that ' survive in France , when all others seem extinguished j
and we believe that he says so with truth . One of the commonest , sights during the off hours , in a French salle a manger , \ a that ) of the garpon inditing at ' some aide table a letter to lainut ' ,. mother , or sister in the provinces : the possession of a little ancestral property , a homestead , keeps up this feeling amongst the poorer classes to a far greater degree than exfats among ourselves . We do not believe that a young £ reneh soldier would take part with pleasure in a war which materially damaged tho prosperity of the old folk * , and tint brothers and Bisters at home . Whatever hatred the first JJUpoleo , y incurred in Franco was mainly owing to his reckless disregard of
this family feeling , In qonclusion , it is as w « ll to state that none of the considerations hero stated ought to throw England off her guard against possible , if not probable , contingencies , or dissuade from that solid system of self-defence which she is wisely though tardily adopting ,
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JUNIUS . * WHO wns the , Man in the Iron Mask P Pid Lady Pnokington write the , " Whole Duty of Man f " . Was Uishop Gmulun . tlio author of" Eikon Basilike ? " Who was tho father of tho old Protender P Was not Porkin Wavbeok king of England de jurat Wlio in good truth pro Annius of Vitorbo , George Psalinaunuzsar , ana Damborgor P Has any one soon the original Oasian M 3 S . P la it pos "
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" ~ Profaoo to "Zoioiutea ' a Bibliographer Manual , " and artiolo " Juniws in the same . Part ) Y . II . 0 , Bonn , 1800 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 25, 1860, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25021860/page/12/
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