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SOCIAL EVILS AND THEIR KEMEDY.*
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' Social Evils ! ' another labourer in the vineyard ! then will I hail him as a brother ; welcome to my heart is any one , who , in these times , joins the adventurous band of inquirers , and sets about the task that shall smooth the way to social
improvementthe redemption from social evils . What will be the remedy which this new recruit proposes ?—nous verrons . To point to the evils is , at least , a symptom of the free and philanthropic spirit , that now walks abroad smilingly , and fearlessly , and hopingly . His proposed remedy may not be an efficient one , no matter ; we will take the good he provides us and be thankful . Something
is done in showing how and where the evils exist ; for the present form of the social system is as a smooth green turf , encrusting bogs and pitfalls , traps and fetters , into which the wayfarer plunges , flounders , and is caught in inextricable difficulties ; mankind are , therefore , greatly obliged to him , who will shave off the velvety turf , and discover the dangers as they stand and lie , and lie as they stand s if one may aspire to a pun on so grave a
subject ; discover them , that the traps arid dangers may be avoidedj or , at least , known to be traps and dangers . Other engineers , if himself have not the requisite skill , will lay out in right direction , and beat into substantial firmness , a new and secure path ; welcome , then , as a brother , be the Rev . Charles B . Tayler , A . M . albeit he is ' a country parson of the Church of England ; ' for if he be the man , ' he is an honour to his cloth .
And with these sentiments I sought the newly published volume , as vivid in anticipated enjoyment , as a well-whipped , hard-tasked , 6 emulation' stirred schoolboy is , when he looks for the morning of breaking up ; or as little Miss longs for her new doll , or little Master for the mince-pie or promised sugar-plum for b £ ing 4 good . ' I worked a sum . in multiplication of how many rods were in so many furlongs of road ; how many yards and feet were
in the rods , and got a total in inches ; and how many minutes and seconds must I be kept in suspense between my first longing ' s dawn , and my having the book , de facto , in my hands ; at length the inches were passed over , the minutes were counted through , and here it is .
Well , what a pretty purple cover ! and the frontispiece , how elegantly ornamented ! what a speaking device ! do look at it . The title has , for supporters , two bishops' croziers , entwined by flowers ; at the foot of the word ' mechanic ' is a vignette ; a black circle surrounding a cross , on the top of which cross is a little goose , asquat . Ha ! now the meaning of the croziers is * The Mechanic ; No . I . of Social Evils and their Remedy . A Series of Narratives addressed to all Classes of Society , on the great Subjects of Political and Christian Economy , by the Rev , C . B . Tayler , A . M .
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SOCIAL EVILS AND THEIR KEMEDY . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 733, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/1/
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