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number of starving children hanging about her , that this fast of * one whole day / would not have been prolonged , if human nature could endure , to more than two days of starving ? And as for that oft-tried Tory remedy for this oft-inflicted Tory malady , that remedy for hunger , not cheaper bread , but a sound opiate , ' food
for powder I food for powder ! I have led them where they will be soundly peppered / we trust it will not in future be found by our leaders so easy as it has been found to administer this orthodox specific to a starving people . Away with scientific calculations respecting the proportion between . subsistence and population ; away with them to the political mysticisms scraped together for the future use of some Whig writer on the benefits of corn
laws ; and away , we repeat , with cruelly fastidious delicacies about checks on population ; away with them to the worn-out common-places of some Tory reviewer of forgotten Sadlerian humbugs . Put the case of a starving family , even though the misery were mitigated to the individual , in order to be increased to the public , by the tender mercies of poor laws , and we would say in good plain English to that family , what we will say to the Quarterly Reviewer in good classic Greek : — i /
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We retort the sneer of the Quarterly Reviewer as most applicable to himself . 4 Poor innocent ! he has been puzzling over Mr . Malthus ' s arithmetical and geometrical ratios , for knowledge which he should . have obtained by a simple question or two of his mamma . '—( Quarterly Review , page 141 . )
But it seems that certain religious principles and feelings of delicacy cause the mind of the reviewer to revolt at truths which sometime back horrified the piety of the Tory philosopher , Mr . Sadler , as he told us in his celebrated work on the evils and remedies of Ireland , and which appear lately to have shocked the delicacy of writers , whose name alone might be received as a guarantee against bigotry and fastidiousness . Our readers are
probably aware ( hat two sons of Mr . Cobbett have commenced a monthly periodical , which , under the title of Cobbett's Magazine , avails itself of the widely celebrated name of their father . In the third number of their work , a review of Miss Martineau ' s Illustrations of Political Economy appeared almost contemporaneously with that Quarterly Article on Miss Martineau ' s Monthly Novels , of which some of our readers may , perhaps , think we have spoken with too much bitterness . The tone of Messrs . Cobbett ' s review
of Miss Martineau ' s volumes , entitles it to more gentle treatment at our hands , both as there is an absence of that strong expression ? Euripidig Medea , 557 .
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316 Miss Marlineau and the Quarterly Review *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/28/
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