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mischievous thing to break any law . If the laws be bad , the clamour of public opinion should be directed to accomplish their alteration . But let us on , boy . Father , what a large open space ! It is , boy , and a fine breathing hole for the metropolis . Many nests of misery stood on that ground , wherein human beings were cooped and misused till their natural faculties were almost lost , and they
became almost animate machines . Too much of this thing still remains in this huge Babel ; but steam will in time effect a total cure by the destruction of distance . People will not live as in pigeon-holes when means are provided for locomotion with little consumption of time . Glorious , glorious science ! Ay , glorious physical science ! for thou art the willing servant waiting at the beck of moral science to do all its drudgery , and without which its endeavours in behalf of human happiness would be fruitless . What building is that , father ?
That square-looking mass of stone , or stucco which looks like stone , and is really at present better than stone , for it will be worn out by the time a better taste shall arise . It would be a pity that such buildings should be in durable stone . One could swear that the fourth Guelph planned that United Service Club-house himself , it is so nondescript . Look at the front and end , as we now see it angle-wise . Look at those long spiring columns , devoid of all proportion , which the architect—or builder taking the name in vain—deemed to be Ionic . But what is the building for ?
Soldier and sailor officers , whose time hangs heavy upon their hands at home , meet there to eat and drink and gamble and talk over their hopes of a new war , by which they individually may profit while others suffer . They call themselves the United Service , i . e . they are the king ' s servants , and wear red and blue liveries , being liable to the kicks and cuffs of the aristocracy at large , who , however , use them well , as the numbers are kept up from their own body . But this club
is only composed of the higher rank ; there is another called the Junior United Service , where sucking slaughtermen delight to congregate upon the scent of battles . None of the juniors * dare say their souls are their own . ' They are the people who do the dirty work of pretending to try culprits when it is resolved to torture a
spare soldier or sailor to death by the lash . But for the cruelty , it would be a most ludicrous farce . They go into a room together like jurymen , as if they dared to have an opinion of their own , as if their chance of promotion did not depend upon their being as subservient as the * leg of mutton juries' of the Marshalsea court . What is that long , ugly building , father ?
It is called the King ' s Mews , probably because in ancient days falcons for sporting were kept there ; but it has been principally used as a barrack . It was once a scene of great excitement . A man named Francis Burdett declared in the House of Commons that floggingsoldiers—not sailors—was degrading cruelty . The oligarchy shut him up in the Tower in consequence , and his courage broke down . Many of the soldiers were excited almost to a state of rebellion , and
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Juvenile Lessons . 689
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1833, page 683, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2624/page/23/
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