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this Ifcviewe ? has pot scrupled tq employ ; nay , over which he seems to have gloated as the best arrow in hip quiver . And with contemptible hypocrisy this foulest of all passages that have been penned in recent times , is introduced with a profession of Unwillingness c to bring a blush unnecessarily upon the cheek of
any woman . ' Why this was the very object , and so far it is gained ; for man , as well as worqan , every individual of the human species , must blush at the paragraph , unless the writer , -who has doubtless long lost the capacity even of blushing for himself , however strong the occasion . Having spit his venom , he ginks into the following silliness : —
* Did Miss Martineau sit for the picture ? But no ;—such a character is nothing to a female Malthusian . A woman who thinks child-beari ng a crime against society ! An unmarried woman who declaims against marriageII A young woman who deprecates charity and a provision for the poor III 1
H ave we exceeded our warrant in saying that the article in the Quarterly Review , entitled Miss Martineau ' s Monthly Novels , is an unmanly insult ? It remains to show tha . t it is sophistry , and bigoted sophistry to boqt j and a single extract from this selfr contradictory compound will establish this fact . ' The mass of the inhabitants of Ireland are starving ; ' so says the Quarterly Reviewer of Miss Martineau ' s monthly novels , in page 148 of that
record of Tory doings . Perhaps the reporter of the above sad truth is not so conversant with r the increase and progress of earthquakes / as to have realized to his imagination a , single starving family , though thousands of such horrors haye , as he has admitted , been realized to the nation by Tory misgovernment . Let us then entreat his serious attention—if it be in his power tp quit his falsetto for a moment , to the following plain record of an
actual starvation c < ase . * William Button was born ir > 1723 , in the town of Derby , where his father was a working wool-comber , burdened with a large family , for whom his utmost exertions scarcely sufficed to procure subsistence . ' My poor mother , ' says his son , in the interesting account he has left of his life , * ' more than once , one infant on her knee , and a few more hanging about her , have all fasted p . whole day ; and when food arrived she has suffered them , with a tear , to take her share . * Now , will
the Tory sophist , after contemplating this single case of starving , and having multiplied it by his own admission , ' the mass of the inhabitants of Ireland are starving ;'—will , we repeat , this Tory sophist tell us that his unmanly attack on Miss Martineau ^ for affirming the expediency of prudential checjcs on population , is u ° t sophistical as well as unmanly ? It must require an arithmetic equal to his logic to prove , had there been two ipfents instead of one on this poor wretch ' s knee , and a ^ oubU ? See < The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties , ' in ' The Library of Entertaining Knowledge / page 172 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/27/
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