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make either good mothers , good wives , good husbands , or good fathers ? " f * If you wish to perpetuate ignorance and brutality , perpetuate the ignorance of woman . In a similar train of sound practical sense , the writer of this excellent address recommends the introduction iiito Mechanics' Institutions of the study ot the science of government , not with a view to make the operative classes of society
mere talkers about existing abuses , but to inform them where lie the means of natural happiness , how the greatest happiness of the greatest number niay be secured , to impress them with the important facts that an ignorant arid vicious people will always hare a tyrannical and corrupt government , and that from an enlightened and virtuous people , ' free and benign institutions naturally arise , Mr . Detrosier writes under the influence
of the principle , " tell me the people , and I will tell you the government , " and is anxious , therefore , not only to reforria abuses hi existing institutions , but to raise the character of the people , assured , and rightly , that if the base of the social pyramid be elevated , all the higher orders which constitute its column must of
necessity be carried upwards with it . We cordially recommend this address not only to those who are concerned in Mechanics * Institutions , but to all who are desirous of Improving the condition and augmenting the happiness of the people . We have long thought that a greater good could hardly be done to the working-classes than he would effect who should simplify to their understandings
the great truths of political economy and jurisprudence . Hitherto darkness on these subjects has covered the land , and gross darkness the people ; because a corrupt government dreading the light , raised by their ten thousand agents an outcry against calling the people ' s attention to the science of politics , and because in consequence the working classes have been under the influence of
selfinterested demagogues , or deluged With the poisonous drugs of political quacks . A better day is , we hope , approaching . The science of government will be studied as the other sciences are , without the blinding and perverting influences of fear or prejudice . Then the people
learning the extent to which they are the arbiters of their oWii fate , will cease to look to a government for every remedy of existing ills and every element of wished-for good , and fabricate their own happiness out of their own knowledge and virtue , and make by the influ-
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ence of their personal excellencies civil government that which now they can only wish it to be *
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Art . XII . — Travels to the Seat of IVar in the East , through Russia and the jQrimeb , in 1 B 29 . By Captain James Alexander , ( late ) 16 th Lancers . In 2 Vote . Colburn , London . 1830 . This is one of those light books of travels of which we have lately had so >
many . The style is particularly good , and it contains many spirite d descriptions . The author sees ^ Jl questions whether political ojr plujosophical , through the inediutn of aristocratic prejudices 5 for example , he ( Joes # ot at all relish the idea of the peasantry being freed from slavery at the expense of extravagant nobles .
" The serfs in Russia are becoming gradually detached from the proprietors , and are freed by the crown or become government slaves . The manner io which this is brought about is as follows : Facility is give a to the Bliss ' iao nobles to borrow money on their estates at the lombard or bauk . Many of the nobility are very extravagant : they are
unable to pay the debt they have con * tracted with government ; and their estates and peasants are transferred to it . Now 1 question if these nobles who have nothing more to lose , be likely to be quiet or peaceable subjects , and if this system be altogether a politic one , even though the condition of the peasantry may be improved by the change . "—Vol . I . p . 117 .
Captain Alexander went from St . Petersburg to Aloscow , and from thence through the Crimea to the Black Sea ; his adventures are told with considerable spirit , and wiil give the reader a good notion of the country an ^ inh abitants of a very little frequented route . The Russians , it seems , look with suspicion on a person who can only ^ escribe himself as a gentle niau , " The Russians do not understand
what a niere gentleman means ; and a person who refuses to state his rank or profession is looked qn with suspicion . 1 heard a friend of mine crogs-qmistiotied at Crojustadt as to what he was : c rin an English gentleman , ' he replied . ' *• ' What chin ( rankj have * you f said the police ' officer . " ' Nqne / " What is your profession ?'
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Critical Notices . —Miscellaneous . 711
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 711, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/55/
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