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THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISTS AT GLASGOW;.
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they properly belong , or to . constitute , themselves as free and independent commonwealths . " With regard to the dynasties of Hapsburg and Hohenzollern , the democrats heartily invoke " a plague on both your houses ! " They therefore call out for an ' -agitation in favour of the convocation of a German parliament , which is to take the question of leadership iii its own hands , thus avoiding the splitting up all Germany into two rival dynastic camps . The National Vereiu , at first originated by men of the moderate constitutional party , has attempted to bring about a fusion between the second and third of these political groups . In " order--to ] attain , this , the idea of Prussian hegemony was for awhile consigned to the background , or treated more as a distant possibility than as a definite aim of the League ; whereas the idea of a central Parliament was placed in the
foreground as an alluring bait to democrats . When , by means of these tactics , the League had at last attained to five thousand members , the string-pullers of the National Vereiu speedily began to drop as quietly as possible the agitation for a central Parliament , and to rehoist the banner of the leadership ,, or psrhaps we should rather say the Dictatorship , of the House of Hohenzollern .. During the recent debates at Coburg it has been shown , however , that in the National Vereiu itself , composed as it is chiefly of moderate constitutionalist elements , such policy is far from being in accordance with the wishes of the majority . The idea of a Prussian hegemony , to be introduced at the cost of the integrity of the national German
soil , found comparatively but lew open advocates . On the other hand , it was urged from many parts that the question of leadership was one calculated to sever altogether the North and the South . Resolutions were therefore adopted , in which stress was laid on the necessity of uniting all the Federal States by means of one free constitution . But as to the future headship of Prussia in Germany , a more circumtory language was employed , characteristic of the difficulties which surround that thornv question . .
We may here remark that of late there has arisen , in some of the branch associations of the National Vereiu , a very marked opposition to the '' hegemonic" scheme . This has been the case especially in the branch league at Frankfort and at Cologne—both -towns in which the democratic sentiment prevails ? Still further signs of such opposition may be expected to be exhibited by and bye , the democratic propoganda labouring strongly to warn the confiding people against the real character of the Prussian Regent . Thus an organ of the more advanced popular party at Hamburg recently reproduced , by way of souvenir , the " " Black List" of those German patriots who had been deliberately shot by Court Martial , in 1 S 49 , at the order of that same Prince Regent , whom a servile sham-liberalism now would fain impose upon the world as the " hone" of Germany .
It appears from this list that the Prince Regent has on Ins conscience as heavy an account of the blood of patriots shed by him as his brother in despotism the Austrian Emperor . Within the short space of a few weeks , the Regent , after having slaughtered hecatombs of patriots on the field of battle , in Rhenish Bavaria and Baden , sorupled not to perform further wholesale massacres by virtue of that " law" which the late Duko of Wellington was wont to speuk of as " no law" at all . In this fashion no less than twenty-eight victims fell , among whom were to be found the best and bravest of the land—men of social and political position , who were led out to death in the snme hideous style as Robert Blum at Vienna , und the Hungarian generals nt Arad . In this way , at the order of that
•• liberal " Prince of Prussia , were shot—W . A . Von Truteschler , Member of the Notional Assembly of Frankfort , n scion of one of the first of the aristocratic families of Saxony , who had embraced the popular cause—Von Tiedeinann , governor of the Fortress of Rastadt- —Von Biedenfeld , colonel —Frederick Neff , professor—Max Dortu , an officer in the Baden Army—Elsenlnms . Secretary in the Ministry of War—Hofer , professor—Boning , colonel—Vnlentin Streuber . Communal Counsellor and President of tho neo-Catholic community vX Mnnnheim—HeiUtf , Major of Artillery—Bernigau , Major of the National Guard—Jixnsen , engineer—Jacobi , commander of tho forts A and B at Rastadt , and a number of othars who loved freedom better tlmn lifo . Nor wn ? this all . Thanks to
the sanguinary reaction of the Prince of Prussia , more men fled from the little country of Baden tlinu had left Poland at the great emigration . Tho property of those exiled or imprisoned was oonfiscutod . All tho dungeons of the country were full to overflowing . Against tho restive part of tho remaining population every sort of terrorism waa employed : tho whip and etiok even , in true Ilavnou fashion , figured in tho grim list of tortureu . No wonder Baden , within tho lust ton
years , has shown a considerable decrease , instead of an increase , qf population , Facts like these may be thrown into oblivion for the moment , but they cannot remain long absent from men ' s memory . The Prince Regent himself , by his daily desertion of the moderate liberal party , and the increasing favour with which he views the pretensions of the legitimacy of Right Divine , forces his opponents to revive these blood-stained antecedents of his . For our own part we are sure the time cannot be far off when National Verein will
even the most infatuated men of the see the folly of the hopes they have hitherto placed in him . If ttiis light be once sufficiently cast upon the Prince ' s true character , the democratic party in Germany will speedily receive many fresh accessions ; and then only some fortuitous circumstance will be necessary , such as history so often shows , to bring again to influence a party which has neither dynastic preferences , nor any inclination to pander to the ambition of encroaching despots .
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WE see that at the meeting at Glasgow for the current year the impoitant question of " Averages " has been announced as forming a prominent topic . In matters of business " averages have been long regarded as forming a solid and satisfactory basis for the profitable and successful establishment of mercantile speculations . Hut that which has time out of mind been proved a s ure hasbeen ted
foundation for fire , life , dad marine assurance , ' . rejec by the mystical and metaphysical school ( and all schools are metaphysical and mystical up to a certain period , of intellectual ievelopment ) , as of . no avitliovity in morul and historical speculations . The exact and rigorous conclusions ot statistics , however , are inexorably , however gradually , narrowing the authority oi the school in question , whose influence may be regarded as ; growing smnllW rWrees . and proportionately diminutive _ . intellectual ock
and moral development nourish and expand . Bacon , ^ e , Bextham , and } Iti , l have , in succbasionybeen its most fortnijable opponents ftuOTBMW in hi * work < On ^ lan , one of ! the really great works this century has produced did much , to diffuse correct notions on the subject off " averages , " applied to societanan p henomena ; but the greatest impetus the < mestion has "oe" ^« been given by a work which , is not merely one ; the S ™*^ monuments if intellectual achievement of **«* * ° ^ ££ century can boast , but one of tho greatest books the ™> rldhas yet seen , and tho second volume of whichi we are . so anxiou&lyex ; uectinff—we meaii " BuCKiK ' s History of Civilization in England . As collectors of materials the labours of the Social Science Concressionists will produce good , , and we anticipate valuable practical results from a proper discussion of the important subject of avefap-es . Lord l $ Ror « HAM ' s opening address at Glasgow was rlistinS-msW bv all the facile discursiveness and learned
versatility for which tho oratorical displays of this eminent man . ore generally remarkable . Meanwhile we resume our remarks on the subject of Sociology . In order that a distinct conception of the science bo kept well in ¦ mind , we shall briefly recur to ^ oui former definitions . Moralogy teaches us to distinguish that voluntary conduct which of its own intrinsic nature is detrimental to human wellboing-, from that which is of its own essence harmless or beneficial , but which is made to be productive of injurious and by
results in consequence of its being proscribed punishe * falso beliefs , absurd prejudices , cruel laws , irraUoniil institutions ; it teaches us in what happiness consists . Happiness , we havo seen , consists in the satisfying of the legitimate wants he . ot that list or wants every one whereof is satisfiable by each member of the community without prejudice to tfo satisfying of all or any of tho wants m the list , by tho whole community ; -whioh abstract formula we reduce to _ . * .. *« *•> ... <¦„ ,. , > .... nHnul annlioation by specifying tho iollowts
„ ,, imcZiZpak * ul > naU ^ iU , tho wants , * ! ™* clothing , habitati ^ n hSh education , knowledge ,, ™* W > t f £ ™ h ^ £ & iu a lu-itimato want , any other want satwfaablo by oaoh poison without prejudice to the satisfying thereof by aajr other person , 2 l aUio wShout prejudice to tfie satisfying of tho principal wants Bwolffi , byoll » aukind . Moral ooaduot is therefore dehnallo Mat voluntary oonduet which i * consistent with tho satisfying of tho legitimate wants by all mankind ; and immoral conduct is ^ cSrsSiic e ' or Sociology , as wo have seen , toaohearwhat Utjj institutions , oustomH , conventionalisms , are bosfc ^ 1 ^ » J ™« oilloiiov of their spontanooun nooesHiiry workings , to evolve moral , opnuuoi i \
or hul ) piness-i > roaaoing ., w «*« , «»« - * «• - r ~ - "j . ~ jj Onu i ' tho loading propositions ot sociology , aud , indeed , tuo t ^ J-JL ^ j ^^ p ^^ SSii ass ass : & ^ p ' ^ Sl-sSLpffi tlon , namely , that absurd systvm l'i ou . ; ' U , } L 0 J / which onoo nourished nntlor t to »»«» 'K ' U ( l n u " l that humW meant monopoly . " It ih ^^"'^ Jjl ob o , ts which are w ,-needs will bo host Hatwliod U tho ""'^ ' ; otlil 0 ud whoro and j& ^ r ^ & ^ i ^ ^ W
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Sept . 29 I 860 ] The Saturday Analyst . and Leader . . 829
The Scientific Socialists At Glasgow;.
rHE SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISTS AT GLASGOW .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1860, page 829, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2367/page/5/
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