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    Lucre must bear the blame . Talent exists now as it ever did , but population presses against the means of subsistence , and the consciousness that they might by possibility starve , causes the sons of art to make gain their primary consideration . Not to build the best specimens of art , but to build the largest masses of masonry , or stucco work , is the desirable consideration . They are paid by a per centage

    on quantity , and not on quality . But good is on the increase . Look at yon market opposite , called Hungerford . It was formerly a hotbed of human diseases , where people purchased food , and absorbed poisonous gases gratis . It can now be cleaned . Let us walk on . This is Covent Garden . It is like a butterfly emerged from a chrysalis . It was formerly a dung heap , studded with hovels , and people crowded upon one another , wet or dry , and steamed Like a simmering caldron . Three times the amount of business may now be done in

    the same space under cover . It is a goodly erection , and the motto of its proprietor , the Duke of Bedford , carved in stone beneath his arms , is pregnant with meaning , Che sara , sara What will be , will be . But the * will be / most probably will not be precisely what the house of Russel most covets . They are a Whig race , living on their founder ' s repute , the noted Lord Russel , who , after all that has been alleged respecting him , really died in a Whig quarrel , and not for popular freedom . ' What will be , will be . ' The ' will be * henceforth will be

    in favour of the many , not of the few . The ' will be' bids fair to be after a while with a responsible house of representatives . The must be , or rather the must not be , will be left for the house of aristocrats to digest . What bridge is that , father ? The ' Strand Bridge was its original name , but it was rechristened ' Waterloo , ' after the ' field of blood and mud ' when the * drowner

    of men , * and many of his royal colleagues in arms , passed over it for the first time . Verily there must be a new christening some day , of many of our public places . Public morality is influenced bynames . We do not say Nero-bridge , or Heliogabalus-street , or Caligulasquare , because they call to mind brutal actions , and modern names to which similar qualities are attached produce a mischievous effect . We would fain forget them . That is a noble structure for a matter of

    private speculation . It is what a bridge should be ; but while it proves the excellence of our physical science and skill , it also proves the deficiency of judgment for which our monied capitalists are somewhat remarkable . The proprietors did not build the bridge on the score of its beauty , or as a fine national monument , but as a money-getting speculation , and thus far their funds were wasted . But there it stands , and a magnificent mass of granite it is . We could as easily

    build a pyramid , ay arid three times the size of the large one of Gizeh—large as all the pyramids of Egypt put together—were there any object in doing it . But the days of building without utility are passed away . What is that ugly gateway built up across the street for ? It is a remnant of feudal barbarism and ought to be cleared away . It serves only to impede the traffic . In former days , when it was the fashion to cut off people ' s heads , it was the custom to plaee them on

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    fiftfi Juvenile Lessons .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1833, page 686, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2624/page/26/