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    ~ ~ and to a degree , as O'Connell remarked , that no dogs of propet spirit would put up with ; knowledge is still taxed to make it scarce , and prevent the people from knowing " what ' s what , " and " who ' s who ; " the primogenitary John-bull incubus , —

    the irresponsible House that Jack built , — still diffuses its baleful and obstinate ignorance as the pure aroma of wisdom , far and wide over the country ; while the elective franchise is set up in a corner like a patent r « £ -trap , from which the owners of the land and granaries can let out their subjects , which constitute the majority , in whatever direction they please , and to be used accordingly ; the Protestant church of Ireland , bereft

    of all religious support , yet erects its head , propped up on bayonets and in blood , as the Venetian palaces stand on their corroding piles ; corn-laws still grind down industry , our bones are baked to make them bread ; and the Secretary for the Home Department gazing on the parchment of Reform , smiles with self-complacent hopes of glory in posterity , while

    the Duke of Wellington , advancing with a noble air , thrusts his cocked-hat under the treasury spout , and drains a golden draught to the standing army of hereditary legislators ! The production of a work of the class mentioned at the outset , and by a competent hand , would do incalculable service to the cause of genuine reform . . It would not be easy to find the exact compound of wit and understanding required

    for the finest development of the plan , but we could point out one or two living writers who would not come far short of enough of both , to answer all the purpose . Many good folks woula be a little confounded at first , by the sudden discovery of previous errors in perception , but it would soon be evident that the advantage of tearing off the veil would be very great , and that the naked figure of involuntary Truth , rising up from

    amidst the analyzed ruins of these our mortal Members , must enable us to become better judges in future . The separation , by such a process , of the mental man from the conventional ; of the general principles from the local ; of the patriotic from the mere personal ; of the thoughts , acts , and results , from the iklse colours wherewith the real purposes and effects are saturated by early habits , customs , prejudices , and private interests , would do much towards the creation of " another

    and a better world" of social philosophy , and its proper corollaries of increased and elevating means of happiness . Present images would " give off" their gaseous fallacies ; a volume of thick mist and scum would roll from before our eyes ; when it cleared away we should discover , as in a hall of sculpture , the positive substantiation of the pure and impure facts , refined through a fictitious medium , and r being mastered

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    2 Our Representatives *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/2/