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    success of those who prosper among them , and the feelings of regard or otherwise with which they impress the remainder . Now the Whigs have latterly made it too manifest that they

    have little sympathy with the Radicals . They use them against the Tories ; but their education is aristocratic , the heads of their leaders coroneted ; they are very sensitive to the Tory jeers against their less fine

    acquaintances ; in short , they and the Tories are of one stock ; while the Radical seems only looked upon as a retainer used by one brother against the other . The purposes , it is true , for which he is used , are good for the general household , but short of its own views of what

    is desirable , and likely ( it would seem ) to stop suddenly and dispense with the retainer as soon as those purposes have secured the particular ascendancy . This , at least , is what many cannot help feeling ; most sincerely do we hope they may prove mistaken . But to proceed—the Whig-Radicals think they go farther than the Whigs , and they do exhibit an appearance of vivacity that way ; but

    inas-• We were not aware till the other day , that Mr Bentham had really evinced his want of universality to s « puerile an extent ; but we find the words in Mr Richardson ' s " Literary Leaves , " with a good many more , refuting themselves at every step . And he thinks poetry contradictory to " truth ! " This specimen of an amazing ignorance of the very essence of things , of the spiritual wants of mankind , and of the whole world of ideal beauty , is happily followed up by Mr Richardson , among other quotations , by the two following : — " It is lamentable when philosophers are enemies to poetry . "— Voltaire . ' < The coincidence of Mr Bentham ' s school with the ancient Epicureans in the disregard of the pleasures of taste , and of the arts dependent on imagination , is a proof both of the inevitable adherence of much of the popular sense of the words interest and pleasure to the same words in their philosophical acceptation , and of the pernicious influence of narrowing / 1 utility" to mere visible and tangible objects , to the exclusion of those which form the larger part of human enjoyments . "*—Sir James Mackintosh *

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    much as they are Whigs , the instinct is the same * which is the reason why they retain the title . The Radicals are split into sections . Some , from an aristocracy of breeding or temper , or personal causes

    of intimacy or favour , have a tendency to settle into Whig-Radicals . Others are pure Benthamites , who would do away with Church and State as at present constituted , and have a Republic like that of America , Others object to a dry

    utilitarianism ( which declares poetry to be no better than " pushpin ! ! " )* and think it argues ill for the generous and hearty working of a system , with much of which they are inclined to agree . Others , whose thoughts are fixed on the wants of

    the poor , and who are chiefly poor themselves , advocate the cause of the suffering classes almost exclusively , and with an ardour of benevolence or violence according to the greater or less purity of their motives . The Owenites , though with a range of view including all mankind , are the benevolent and highly estimable extreme of these ; if indeed they should be mentioned at all in thi £ pre-

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    Result of the Elections , and Defects of the Reformers . 147

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 147, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/3/