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    rare one . The example of the United States stands alone , and has yet to be imitated on more than one portion of the earth ' s surface . But to the question . Com is dear in Rome , and the spokesman of the mutineers proposes to kill Caius Marcius , afterwards Coriolanus , who he suspects is the principal preventive to

    their getting' corn at their own price . Now , if Caius Marcius did so prevent them , it is clear that he was their best friend , for it was the only practicable method of making the corn hold out , by diminishing the daily consumption ; as Adam Smith would have told them had he lived in those days , and for which telling they would ,

    probably , have made his head serve as an ornament to a javelin Joseph , the son of Jacob , when he was prime minister in Egypt , pursued in the seven years' famine precisely the same policy as Coriolanus . In proportion as the corn got scarcer he sold it dearer ; had he not so done , there would have been an end of it

    long before the new crop came in , and the people would have been in the situation of the boat ' s crew , described by Byron—* The consequence was easily foreseen ; They ate up all they had and drunk their wine , In spite of all remonstrances ; and then , On what , in fact , were they next day to dine ?'

    One of the plebeians , however , dissents from the opinions of the majority , whose feelings may be gathered from the speech of the leader' The gods know I speak this in hunger for bread , not in thirst for revenge . '

    The advocate for Marcius desires them to think on the services he has done his country ; ' and continues , ' you must in noway say he is covetous . ' This the mutineers cannot gainsay , but the hunger within them conjures up bitterness , even out of the virtues of the man who had thwarted them , and whom they acknowledge to be disinterested in his opposition ; but their further

    proceedings are checked by the entrance of c worthy Menenius Agrippa , one that hath always loved the people , ' and whom the people love in return . This says much for the poor people ; in short , bad as they were , they could be kind to those whom they believed their friends . But it seems one of the causes why they loved Menenius was , that he was no proud Jack ' , but' a perfecter giber for the table , than a necessary bencher in the Capitol . ' He

    evidently liked his jest , and was ' hail fellow well met' with all the trades in Rome . ' He liked to crack his jokes , and was most probably as severe on patrician as on plebeian , wherever he espied a defect . That he was a worthy honest man , though none of the wisest , is clear , for he was as much beloved by Marcius as by the people ; and Marcius would love nothing base . Menenius inquires the occasion of the uproar , and the sturdy plebeian spokesman indulges in sundry hungry anathemas against the

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    Coriolanus no Aristocrat , 45

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/47/