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    even dissociates itself from the scene in which I learned it . I seem to have heard it in visions of the night ; or to have read it on the leaf of a plant . I go about repeating * Mrs . Thomson you are ivanted . ' Of whom else dare one make such an affirmation ?

    Who is wanted in this world ? Who , but she ? The Whigs are not wanted . The parsons are not wanted . The poets are not wanted ; for ,, as Kirke White says , ' Fifty years hence , and who will think of Henry ? ' Kings are not wanted ; when once that grim groom death trots them out , how soon it is

    * For O , and for O , the hobby horse is forgot / Nay , even , according to Malthus , people are not wanted . And is it not something , then , to know that Mrs . Thomson is wanted ? Would that Mr . Brunell would complete the Thames Tunnel ; for then I could manage better than at present to avoid the Elephant and Castle in my outgoings . I dread that spot . I know it will happen to me some day ; I have a presentiment of

    the catastro phe ; a second sight which infallibly forebodes a first sight . I shall not be able to avoid it . I shall be wedged into the coach , and obliged to see it . The coachman will pull up there . Four men , with dingy coats and cloaks , but with silk hatbands , will be heavily bearing the plain coffin , covered with the laded pall . Many will follow , but not a multitude . As the train passes , there is a respectful cessation even of the eternal uproar ot the house of call . The pause strikes on my sense , as if I were standing on the coast , and the murmur of the waves returned not at its accustomed interval . One voice alone breaks the silence . The cad stands on the edge of the pavement , looks wistfully after the coffin ,, and shakes his head as he repeats , c Mrs . Thomson , you are wanted ! '

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    The Collective Wisdom' of England , assembled in the great national council to which the name of' The First Reformed ^ Parliament ' has been affixed by its members , and those who depend on them , owing to various motives—ignorance being one of the most powerful ;—that very ' Reformed Parliament , ' which has pronounced the retention of black men in slavery an unjustifiable evil , pregnant with numerous fatal consequences , and has

    thereupon taken measures to secure its total abolition , — that very ' Reformed Parliament * has sent forth to the world its deliberate fiat , determining that it is a fitting and justifiable thing to entra and catch certain white men , and forcibly convey them on board sundry floating castles to engage in scenes of blood and slau ghter , simply because those white men have been trained to

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    Civilized Barbarism . 285

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    CIVILIZED BARBARISM .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1834, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2632/page/53/