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duty of producing it . Communism is capital and labour , in their condition of greatest weakness and sterility . Association is capital and labour , in their condition of greatest strength and fertility . We see what great works are rearedI by joint-stock companies _£ > ade . I would have working men to associate for I like performances , smaller or greater . I have little hope of their social or moral elevation , looking at them in the mass , until provident , reproductive association becomes their leading aim and practice . But such association must be founded on reproductive grin- ciples , not on the moral sentimentality of our unfor- tunate socialists at Harmony Hall , to whom I have alluded ; nor the political sentimentality disjoined I from true calculations of profit and loss , as in the i _OTonnor Land Scheme I With these suggestions , and an expression of faith ( considerably st _/ _olg , though not abs & _ute ) that your I new journal will supply a great want , fulfil a great I end , lead the industrial orders of men in the right 1 way to attain all that is attainable under heaven , I and leave them better prepared even for heaven than I in their condition of social degradation they now are , I T am _rPTOPetfullv and honefullv vrmrs I am , respectfully ana _nopeiully yours , i Alexander & omervim , e I (" One who has Whistled at the Plough" ) ,
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PRESSURE OF THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE ON THE ARTIZAN AND THE TEACHER _.. , . , _, - »« -.. " _^ In this country , admitted by its Ministers to be governed by Opinion , an able liberal paper is a power on the side' of the People ; and many who cannot altogether coincide with you will be grateful for the course , which , judging from your Prospectus , you propose to pursue . A paper critical , not with a view of affecting superiority , but in order to be instructive , and mani- | _festing a genial ability , is an exception among the newspaper press . lhe " Open Council you offer is the crowning attraction to those to whom strong convictions have given the desire for _utterance elsewhere refused , in deference , as you observe , "to some political expediency , social routine , or trading prejudice . " It happens , however , to be no banned topic upon which I wish to be heard . My object is to draw public attention to two points of an argu- ment of rising importance , to which I should have drawn Lord John Russell's attention on the occasion of the late Deputation to him from the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee , had Mr . Milner Gibson , at whose disposal I placed myself , been of opinion that his lordships time permitted it . Next to such an opportunity I value that afforded in the _department placed at the public's disposal in the Leader . re The points brought before his lordship by Mr . J . D . Collett , Mr . Edwards , and the Rev . Mr . Spencer , of the deputation , were severally those of law , trade , and morals . I seek to add the cases of the Artizan an _^ r t _^ e _^ eacher * . When working in a factory , I first heard that *? gE ? ' of t ! _TmaVke b _^ _workers understood it beyond this-that it meant having nothing to do at the beginning of the week , and nothing to eat at the end . Naturally stimulated to correct , at least the culinary part of the defalcation , we had recourse to combination , and as wages fell we sought to raise them by *« strikes . " These were as fruitless in effect as they were fallacious in theory , Knowing no better , we still went on sowing anxiety and reaping disappointment . All this time , as I have _SJ _^ _ftE _^ i _^^ _sTen _' th ™ their cost kept them from us At length the appetite of _ihe market , which , unlike some other things , does not seem to grow by what it feeds upon , became " glutted" entirely , and many of us were thrown quite out of work ; and many were the weary months we spent seeking employment which we never found . The fact was , our branch of industry was used up—superseded . The newspapers knew it ; they knew also what we should have been highly benefited by knowing , that other branches of £ _™ X ry _^• _a _?^^ _X _^ _iA _^ _r _^ i _^ t _^^ J _^^ r _^ that was the only way whereby they were likely to find it . We might have found it otherwise had news- papers been cheap ; and also common—for the struggle for bread in which the poor are engaged is so engross- ing , that unless _knowledge is thrust upon them they are not likely to come by it . The pa 6 t condition of hand-workers , which I from experience have de- scribed , is true still of that class ; and when I remem- ber the bitterness and suffering imposed upon us by _wtruTc _^ who knows through what handworkers pass , and who yet continues Taxes on Knowledge ; which are useful to nobody in the proportion in which they are dis- _astrous to the thousands of partially and wholly
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unemployed , who continually «• tramp" up and down our land . As there is doubtless great competition for your space , I reserve the argument deducible from the case of the Teacher for another opportunity .
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. , _WW 1 M , Q EXTRACTS FBOM LETTERS . The following extracts are from a private letter addressed to the Editor by a distinguished writer , and an ornament to the Church , on receipt of the programme of the Leader :- «« I am frightened at your prospectus ; not but that the spirit of it is excellent , but do you really expect to realize a profit by speaking the truth ? My old- fashioned Book tells me what those who take up that « tyle of handling the world have to expect-not twenty per cent _*» but insult , calumny , misconception , persecu- ' _* ; o _^ JZ _^ _JSS _^ Jt _^}^ _& w ShJ _^ _SS . 6 thl _^ fone Tu ™ * 800 v _^ _arsTo , _^ 0 _^^ fo _? three years to preach deliverance to the captives , and freedom to the lost . Perpend . I have been , thank God , as yet spared my share of the usual rewards of speaking my mind ; but I expect the hornets about my ears weekly : on which day Heaven give me a thick hide , a clear conscience , and no expectations to get disappointed . Really , if you are right , I shall begin to believe , with Emanuel Swedenborg , that the Day of Judgment verily got itself transacted about the middle of the eighteenth century , and that we are now well on in the Millennium-- as would appear from the Morntng Chronicle revelations ! Never mind , my dear , go your way . Be bold , be bold , and everywhere be bold ! Speak your mind . Out with itall—right or wrong , sense or nonsense , never mind—let ' s hear what you an have to say . If you ' re right , you'll do good at ' first hand ; if you ' re wrong , you'll set some one else on setting you right , . and do good so at second hand . Only speak your whole mind , every soul of you— no reservation—leave that to my cloth . Bawl out your whole thought before heaven and earth—if man will not hear you , God will . The curse of the day is just that no on _^ g _^ e 1 do _^ _lood _Tus the _' verv _evdftSrf ? _tf *** . iJ _^^ J _^ 79 n % S _^^ h _^^ S conSce _' stricken time , which would be _delighted to repent if one could repent without mending one ' s ways—confessing to every sin on earth except the darling ones which it knows are at the loot of all its sorrows , like a maid- servant in the family way , who bores the doctor with every symptom that she can recollect or invent , except just what ' s the matter with her . " ¦
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Critic 3 _^ not the legislators , but the judges and police of literature . They do not make laws—they interpret and try to enforce _theL _.-Xdinburgh _lieview . *
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. q n _^ eye of E aster tnere 1 S se ldom much literary activity . We have only the diminishing echoes of Christmas ; nor does the present Easter promise to be very brilliant , if announcements I are to be trusted :. Browning ' s new poem , Christmas JEve and Easter Day , excites peculiar expectations , partly because it is his first publica- tion since his marriage 5 and we may _anticipate the pleasure of tracing the influence upon his impres- sionable mind of a remarkable woman , ana of the strange mysterious impulses which arise from the new complexities of a married life ; and partly because it is understood to be an elaborate defence of Christianity . If he has not played with his subject and toyed with his own fame , the world _wju nave something to talk about—and , in poetry , _^ a _* j s a g reat rarity now-a-days . Philip Bailey ' s Angel World , announced by no " puff _nreliminary _/ _^ _announced solely by a _wioe reputa- tion , is slowly making its way , and will presently m _<* t with notice at our hands . But the talk of the day is centred m Carlyle ' s uncompromising pamphlets , which the majority deplore , while many shrug their shoulders in incomprehending amaze- ment . Surely this outcry is somewhat unrea- sonable ? Cablyle has said nothing in those pamphlets which he has not said in his writings an j conversations for many years ; and , if he startles you with the savage earnestness and uncom- promising distinctness of his language , is that not l father _because you are _unaccus _& _mfd to hear the language of strong convictions ? But he is so intolerant ! He is . He hates the word tolerance , He is a fierce worshipper of truth , and whatever to him bears the aspect of a lie meets with no sort of pity . He does not stroke the Devil down the back , and , with compassionating tenderness , ca _]| him a " poor misguided angel" ! Differing as we do profoundly from Carlyle ' s opinions on points , we have but one feeling for the sincere , po we _^ il , suggestive , coloured manner in which he sets those opinions forth He never speaks m vain . Where he is wrong , he is yet so strong that , by the force of antagonism , he strengthens your convictions . In the Model Prisons which excites
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such horror , he has done great service by statii the argument for capital punishment in _tl mOst vivid form it has yet assumed ; in his o _^ peculiar way he brines it back to our univers instincts j and thus , to answer him , forces us the highest characteristic of Civilization 18 i subordination of our _tnstmcttve nature to 01 reflective—the triumph of humanity over animalit Among the gossip of the day the Life of t _, 2 ) u * e of Kent is already loudly canvassed . It _opei up old stories of princely quarrels and princely _il . , {; - _ _-, _„ j _ h f £ p i ; fi » ftf the Qiipf » n » s _father U _^! _gf' _* nd > . f _; i _^ _iS _^ Lri _™ W _. _™ _f _» l _, certain to excite considerable attention . Wemayal _. mention Eliot Warburton ' s forthcoming nov _« Reginald Hastings : no commonplace book mu we ex P ect in that . And a new work , or , rathe { _^ collection of scattered and forgotten _essa : b _7 _Coleridge , edited by his daughter , is ai nounced . Even more attractive is the promise < Sydney Smith's Lectures on Moral Philosoph delivered at the Royal Institution . England ca b fc f fi ' _rjrofminder wit and era " . _, no ™ an OI "J 1 _" . or proiounaer wit , ana era tamly _» ° man of wit whose writings were s uniformly unexceptionable . In Sydney Smiti wit always seemed the flower and consummaf grace of exquisite good sense and good feeling « n ( _i ;* _j o _Aa _nwonnoo « f ti . A » r . _m _» _Jf _i _;*;« _o ... 1 _, _;^ and , lt ; ls ™ presence of the same qualities whic *® _nders _* he satlre ° } lHACKERAY at once s delightful and so terrible . The name of Thackeray naturallv _suo-irest _-A n _° f _p _*™ _ , ° * _£ _* _° _*** _v \ _Z _£ * _f _? geSt that ° f Ch _, j t _? D J , N _? ' . The first nu _mJer _« tne Household Words will be m every one s hand to-day . If anything could make the new journa realize its title it is the name and presence 0 Charles Dickens , —a beam of sunshine glad denin thousands . Grave misgivings have bee ! felt respecting this journal , and the capacity of it editor for the " business" part : _—misgiving founded mainly on the fate of the Daily News A newmonthlv innrnal edited hv At iipbt Smith _% _?* W T ™ ° n _«? _S _i _Mi _^ _llLt _^ _JlZlIZ _™ f Town and Country Miscellany , also makes it a _^ out to-day . But we have reserved the plun for the last . Reader , how does Sir Charle Dickens sound in your ear—how Sir _Douglai Jerrold ? If gossip report " on authority" ma ; be trusted , we shall soon have to salute them _fr some such title , it being the intention of Govern ment to create an order of merit , and to lavisl titles , not only on soldiers and patriotic aldermen hnf _alw on mpn of _Ipf _^ s Wp _ponfow wp slinnlf DU \ al SO ° _^ _™ . e . n ° * J _** _^; . « _rf _® 5 _^ f _^ JL a ! E ! e _f e _^? Gm _\! u le } indiscriminately given thai that of knighthood .
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French literature has sustained a great loss ii Charles de Bernard , one of the few novelisti with a real knowledge of life , and power of _depicting it . He has been called a moral Balzac but , except that he exhibited no such love of the prurient as disfigures the works of that very remarkable observer , we are unaware of any _superionty in his moral code . His tone was _^ always light , gentlemanly , and pleasant , with a quiet vein of satire and graphic powers of dramatic presentation . Gerfaut , Un Homme Serieux , he Paraventt Le Nieud Gordien , & c , were works sufficient to have placed the writer everywhere en evidence , but with a modesty rare in these days , and rarer still among his countrymen , he shunned notoriety , and kept himself so secluded that daring adventurers coSld cloak _^ _hemselves in . his . name and reputation , and secure for a season the benefits of "honism . " In the prime of his faculties he has been cut off . Among the tempting new yellow , blue , and green volumes with which Jeff s counter is resplendent , we shall henceforth miss those bearing the name of Charles de Bernard : a name we never could resist . On the aforesaid counter there are , indeed , some novelties—Paul de Kock offers us four volumes of line Gaillarde s but unhappily the day is past when Paul ' s name had any attraction ; in spite of his slipshod style and fondness for dirt , the day has been when he was the first of comic writers . Lugene Sue makes a gasping effort to revive his popularity by Les Mystercs du Peuplc _, and its socialism has so well supplied the place of genuine power that 10 , 000 copies have been printed . Alexandre Dumas , the matchless charlatan , and adroitest of storytellers—laughed at by all Europe , despised by all Europe , but read by all Europe—carelessly throws down before us six volumes of the Collier de la Reine _, the thirteenth and last volume of Le _Vicomte de Bragelonne ( which is a continuation of Vingt _ans _crW . 9 , which itself was a continuation of Les Trois Mousquetaires ) _, one volume of La Dame au Collier de Velour , and four volumes of Louis XV . What , four new
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Leader (1850-1860), March 30, 1850, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_30031850/page/13/
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