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heedful on these points , for they must become the guides of their fellows , and it is of the first importance that they should guide them wisely . With minds clear enough to pierce through the mystifications of the class above them , they ought not to lose themselves in any fog of prejudice which may float around them : nor will they for any length of lime . We have great faith in their
vigour of intellect and honesty of purpose . We rejoice in the indications of these qualities in the writer before us , as much as we rejoice in his poetical spirit . We say to him , and to his fellowlabourers , Go on and prosper ; and so sayin gs we include ourselves in our own benediction , for we have a common purpose with him and them . We adhere to the St . Simonian maxim , even though the * Times' should recommend our being pelted for the same .
We contend that the legitimate object of all political institutions , is the * improvement of the condition , physical , intellectual , and moral , of the poorest and most numerous class / We hold that this object is paramount in social arrangements . We believe in no real discrepancy ; but if there were , coute qui coute , the progression of humanity must be exhibited in those who toil . Their rights and interests should be pursued by all honourable means
and at all real risk ; by unions , by meetings , by cheap publications , by petitions and remonstrances , and by whatever else circumstances may require ; and that , whatever becomes of churches , corporations , or monopolies , of peers or princes . The Physical Comfort , the Mental Cultivation , the Political Rights , of the Working People of England , that is the motto on our banner . We nail that flag to the mast , and will sink or swim with it flying , so help us God !
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Saint Monday . 837
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Since the above was written we have procured c The Mechanic ' s Saturday Night / which is , as its title announces , ' poem in the vulgar tongue / It is chiefly occupied with the description of a scene which excites similar feelings to those with which we read the factory row in St . Monday ; and many fastidious readers will turn away from both in disgust . And yet Hogarth is become a classic now . And such paintings as these were they , only done with pencil instead of pen , that made Hogarth immortal : and that
have also made him more moral than most classics . Graphic , we know , and faithful , we believe , is this sketch of a crowded alehouse on a Saturday night . It is throughout powerful ; and many touches of feeling and of sarcasm direct that power towards the purposes of rebuke and correction . We extract a specimen from the middle of the poem , and append to it the concluding verse .
' But see ! a shoeless urchin opes the door , Staring with eyes inquisitive and sad , He stalks dejectedly across the floor , He seeks , and soon he finds his drunken dad :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 837, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/33/
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