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    Life seetns scftf ^ ely to remain itt him when he is flung away in scorn , like a cast-off garment . The kind of justice which inhabited the breast of the tribunes maybe gathered from the speech of Brutus , who ., while the passionate excitement of himself and the people is at its height agaihst Coriolanug , not in cool deliberation , but in hot blood , pronounces sentence of death against him . This was a case in which it was a moral act to resist the

    officers of the law , for they were perverting the law in order to gratify private malice and ignorant cruelty . Coriolanus makes the hearts of his assailants quake within them , when , drawing the heavy blade which had hewn down many a Volscian , and perchance the same which c struck Tarquin on the knee , ' he exclaims * No , I'll die here .

    There ' s Borne amongst you have beheld me fighting ; Come , try upon yourselves what you have seen me . ' Menenius sums up well the defects in his character : He has been bred i' the wars Since he could draw a Bword , and is ill schooled In boulted language ; meal and bran together He throws without distinction . '

    It is tnostly thus . Soldiers rarely make good civilians . Washington is one example how a siicceseftil ttarrior may be a good legislator ; but there have been few Washington ^ in the world , and , moreover , Washington waa no regularly trained soldier . It is a lamentable thing to tnink ., that the very qualities of patriotism , which sometimes i ? Lpel men to become soldiers , have thus a tendency to work their own ruin . Esprit du corps becomes a characteristic , even of the most exalted minds , when they have been

    long accustomed to act in unison after a despotic fashion , such as the constitution of a regular arrny requires \ and the attempt to establish the military order of Cincinnati , in America , after the revolution , was most wisely discountenanced by the nation . If a revolution of force be needful , —and very rare are the cases , —then should it be in the fashion of the French revolution of July ; sharp and short ; fierce while it lasts , aiid humane when it is over ; fought too b y men in p lain clothes , wearing only a temporary badge , to distinguish tnent from the enemy during the heat of the combat : after the struggle is over ,, the next best thing is to forget all animosity . Jumtfs Redivivus . ( To be continued . )

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    202 Corlolanu * n 6 Aristocrat .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/42/