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clergymen-politicians , having passed a sabbath-protecting , ( some indeed , calling it a sabbath-spoiling law , ) viz . to prevent the lieges from air and exercise on the sabbath day / instantly find their peiv rentage raised in consequence ; thereby plainly proving whom the said sabbath laws are calculated to protect . We vnsh there were more truth in the Quarterly Reviewer ' s pleasant
sneer : — 4 AU this is so just , so clear , so self-evident , and so ably " illustrated , " that we do not wonder at our actual Ministers having followed the example of * ' Lord F . " and resorted for lessons on political economy to Miss Martineau , who is evidently quite as capable of governing the nation as Old Joel himself . '—[ Quarterly Review , p . 150 . )
We leave Whigs and Tories to settle between them who is meant by Lord F— . and Old Joel , being ourselves doubtful whether aristocratic stickers to their order , or aristocratic stickers to their rent are intended , but quite certain , that it signifies not a feather or a straw to us whether we are to be plundered by Norman knights or English squires . We come next to unhappy Ireland , respecting which country , and Miss Martineau ' s deeply interesting tale entitled Ireland , the Quarterly Reviewer says : —
* Professor WCulloch and his disciples , male and female , forget wholly one very simple fact , namely—that the distress of Ireland arises from a want of food . —( Quarterly Review , p . 148 . ) If in the term food were intended to be included food for the mind , as well as food f or the body , the Reviewer ' s assertion would be a melancholy truth ; and it is only to be regretted that it should have occurred to him so late , that there is dread of i ( s being too
late * But as the term food is intended to be limited to food for the body , it is palpably false to assert that ' the distress of Ireland arises from a want of food . ' But indeed , this false antecedent is merely supposed , in order to found upon it that false consequent —Poor Laws for Ireland . On this subject it may be sufficient to quote the following passage from Miss Martineau ' s * Ireland , ' with the Quarterly Reviewer ' s remarks upon it .
If the law could rectify these evils , Henry , I would cry out with as loud a voice as you . It is because I am convinced that a legal charity would only aggravate them , that I advocate other methods of rectification . The principle of growth is inherent in that system , whether that growth be rapid or slow ; and the destruction of the country in which it is established , becomes merely a question of time .
The only way to get the better of it is to annihilate it in time ; and thia being the case , it is mere folly to calL it in for the relief of temporary evils . ' Now for the Quarterly Reviewer ' s exulting comment on this sound text . * And all this vague assumption is to be a sufficient answer to the strong cry of the hungry , the destitute , the desperate cottier—his cry
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320 Miss Martineau and the Quarterly Review .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/32/
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