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divine of kings to govern wrong ! " —swearing to a liberal charter in the face of the blushing world !—and , finally , accepting the crown at the hands of his people , amid their tears , his own , and those of his affectionate family ! What will the world come to , when a king believes himself a man ? How will they wipe the tears of Louis-Philippe from the crown of Henri the Fourth and Louis the Fourteenth ? I grew excessively wroth—got down from my tree — and took a nap at the bottom of it .
I had but just got into a dull sort of dream , about a people " sitting every man under his vine and his fig-tree , with none to make them afraid , " when I was disturbed by another sound in the same direction . I resumed my station , and lo , a gigantic town-crier going up and down the towns and cities of Belgium , offering ^ re shillings for a king , and proclaiming that the people were tired of eating oranges . " Dear stars ! " I exclaimed , in the spirit of the apostrophes of the great Laker , *« Dear stars ! " what will they do now ? Little did I think I should live to see the time when the crown
went hunting the king , like * Ccelebs in search of a Wife . ' These are the fruits of the march of intellect—this is what comes of enlightening the people ! Big-wigged man of power , this is the interpretation of thy dark saying , ' The schoolmaster is abroad . " Better he had remained at home . We shall soon not have darkness enough for sleep . Knowledge and freedom ! we despise them—give us back despotism , and tithes , and taxes . Go to your beds , ye political fire-flies , and let the stream flow on as darkly as before . We did not feel the cold , until you awoke us to tell us we had no blankets . Go to your beds—and ' let the world sleep on . "
Thus I lamented—and now the sun began to set behind the blue paradise of the moorland hills . " Ah ! " thought I , " ye have no Reformers , beautiful eternities ! No Brougham has sent a schoolmaster to illuminate the Torrs —there is no contention about the sovereignty of the mountains ! No innovator "—But here I bethought me of the rail-road and Sir Thomas Tyrrwhit , turned my back upon the mountains , and walked sleepily home . Feb . 13 , 1831 .
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( Continued from p . 88 . ) The second and third parts of the " Nouveau Christianisme" of Saint Simon never appeared . His death followed shortly upon the publication referred to in our last number . His followers have recently published an
8 vo . volume of the public expositions of their opinions , * ' Doctrine de St . Simon . Exposition . Premiere annee , 1828 , 1829 . " This has reached a second edition . We shall avail ourselves of an able and extended analysis of it in the Revue Eneyclop £ dique . 'i he needful abridgment to fit it for our publication will hardly , we fear , suffer us to do justice to ihe original
publication . " In casting an impartial glance over European society , unquestionably at the head of civilization , it is impossible not to be struck with the spectacle of the disagreement which prevails in opinions , principles of action , and material interests , as well general as individual . Society is subdivided into a multiplicity of sects calling themselves religious or philosophic : sects which throughout the three last centuries were united by their common hatred of
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THE SAINT SIMONITES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/37/
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