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132 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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S par tates . is against every , one , who does not endeavour to reach the highest point li attainable ttle sympathy to him for . those Winning who horses remain are behind everywhere but to the allow favourites yourself , and to there be left is
has behind declared voluntaril to be y desirable , is here regarded ; it is an as offence wilful against ; contempt society for — what a kind public of immoral opinion
proceeding . " Although . howevergetting on and rising in the world is regarded
by the American , s in , the light of a duty , it would be , Mr . Frobel assertsan error to imagine that getting on means notbing more than
the accumulation , of money , or that public opinion is indifferent to the _yray in which money is obtained ; they respect wealth , as evidence
of successful effort and of talent ; and they do certainly regard success as the test of merit : but if talent , courage , or any mental
power can snow a great result obtained , this is far more respected than the accumulations of a mere money-getter , or the prizes
bestowed by blind fortune . The author rightly declines to enter into any minute detail
concerning his private affairs , but intimates that the metamorphosis of a German man of letters into an American soapboiler "was not
altogether such as to justify such a leap in the dark . This we might indeed infer from the fact that in the course of another year we find
him on the road to Washington , in the pursuit of different objects ; and subsequently undertaking extensive journeys through Central
America , and in the little explored country between the Mississippi and the north of Mexico .
One of the most peculiar characteristics ~ of American society is the astounding facility with which the wildest crotchets of the
brain are seenalmost as soon as they are conceived , to start , into portentous lifeand acquire a " local habitation and a name . "
One of the newest , of the phantoms thus endowed with corporeal existence is that known at present as the Sovereignty of the
Individual . The total failure of the New Harmony scheme of society has , it
seems , suggested to some ingenious disciples of Mr . Eobert Owen the idea of trying one diametrically opposite ; and whereas , according to
% he former plan , the one thing needful was to merge all individual existence in that of the community , the other is to break up
society into separate and independent atoms , with no more principle
of aggregation than the grains of sand on the sea-shore .
132 Notices Of Books.
132 _NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/60/
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