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cneroachment , and in insisting on and maintaining all .. these privileges and blessings , were the characteristics which distinguished a manly Englishman—a bold Briton , from all other men in the universe . Oh yes , he ivas told all this . There are many now , whose purposes such telling served at the time , would rather bite off their tongues than give utterance to such words , for they
are no longer useful words to them ; the words begin to have a meaning , to be understood . God keep us in peace , to prosper the understanding ! But let us see what he was taught with all this telling : what was his education by practice and example ? That the high-born and wealthy were beings to whom he owed reverential submission without question ; he was made to regard riches , a coach and equipage , or a better coat , as the tokens and
signs of superior grace and especial favour from heaven ! nothing less in effect , though words certainly never went to such a length ; to feel that they , the owners and wearers , were of a brighter mould , and purer flesh and blood ; and there was his station , at their footstool , or on the hem of their garments : his conduct was to be regulated by them ; his body ' s strength was something for their use : that it was disobedience to think or inquire , and
disloyalty to question their decisions ; their will was his absolute master . Manhood , true manhood , the sources of reason , had been educated out of him , and dried up in ' respect for his superiors / His labour was constrained to their purposes ; every scanty indulgence , his recreations , his rest , his enjoyments , were only permissive , and , like his hard and peril-earned food , were mere allowances ;— ' Rights' was a word scratched out of the jolly British tar ' s vocabulary ; or , in short , and at best , his creed of faith , duty , and moralities , was the Russian catechism , with an appendix , viz . ' the divinity that doth hedge a king / did likewise enmantle all his officers , down to the boatswain ' s-mates of his
Majesty ' s ship Salvador del Mundo . Perhaps , nay it is this education that produces a feature in the English naval and military services which you will have some difficulty ? in finding parallels to , in other countries . Men who have been promoted from the ranks , or from before the mast , are generally the most harsh disciplinarians and industrious of tyrants .
It is an application of their own training in training others : it is their turn now . The principle extends broadly and deeply in political or social life also . We generally find those who have ascended from humble poverty and obscurity , to titles , rank , or wealth , are the greatest scorners , the heartiest haters of the ^ class from which they sprung ; they are the most diligent and earnest advocates of measures which shall secure and advance the * upper /
and crib , cabin , and confine ** the ' lower orders ; ' they make the staunchest of Tories , the most zealous of conservatives . In thensocial life they are the haughtiest , and most supercilious , most reserved of masters , and rigidly exact that deference and servility *
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82 $ Autobiography ofPzL Verjuice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 826, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/22/
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