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by which their father has so often given offence , and as there is throughout their article an attention to feelings of propriety and established principles which will give an additional weight to their opinion . Speaking of the population doctriue , as adopted by Miss Martineau , they make the following remarks : — * It is that part of her work which relates to population , and which
is to promulgate the idea of there being too many of us , which is the most objectionable part of Miss Martineau ' s doctrines , and what is here set forth is too repugnant to nature for us to believe that it was ever put on paper by one of her sex . * —( CobbetVs Magazine ^ No . 3 . p . 215 . ^ The Quarterly Reviewer will triumph in finding an ally in a quarter from which he probably anticipated no assistance . But there is an idiosyncrasy in minds as well as in bodies , and when
we find the leading article in the very number of Messrs . Cobbett ' s Magazine , in which they censure the indelicacy of Miss Martineau ' s doctrine , bearing this rather questionable title , ' The Wedding Day and the Wedding Night / we are obliged to refer their fastidiousness to that peculiarity of mind which lately induced Mr , Cobbett , Sen . to refuse political rights to the Jews of Whitechapel , on the grounds of their having crucified his ( Mr . Cobbett ' s , Sen . ) Saviour .
We cannot think that delicacy , even though the delicacy of Cobbett ' s Magazine be added to the delicacy of the Quarterly Review , forbids a lady noticing truths , on which the science she is allowed to treat is principally based . Miss Martineau could not have illustrated even the leading truths of political economy , without noticing the doctrine of population ; nor could she have
spoken of that doctrine in terms less calculated to offend real delicacy , than those she has employed . For that over-delicacy , which is plainly in this , as in every other case , under-delicacy , we trust she will continue to hold it in deserved contempt , and that she will proceed in her task with the glorious freedom with which science and benevolence have made her free , leaving it to her
reviewers — Arcades ambo Et cantare pares , Sweet innocents ! And paired in cant , to arrange their plain duties with their fine feelings as they can or will .
We sympathize in the indignation expressed against those country-gentlemen politicians who have made England a country of paupers . But the deed is done and cannot be undone ,, and we are unable to extend our sympathy to the rejection of sound alleviations . Let not the agitator be alarmed . When emigration has done its best to mitigate misery , there will remain sufficient cause of and for discontent nt home . In the mean time the fine feelings which would encourage population and
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Miss Martineau and the Quarterly Review . 317
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/29/
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