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separate debaucheries , leaving their families in want . Bui if to provide against this evil were the real object , it could be effected , not by restraining the just liberty of the one party , but by giving a remedy to the other . Upon proof that too much of a labourer ' s earnings was spent from home , his wife ought to have the power of demanding that a suitable proportion of his wages should be paid , not to him , but to her , for the support of herself and of her children . Supposing this done , we know not why the
legislature should enact , either directly or indirectly , that a husband should have no society except that of his wife : the misfortune is , that the privilege is not reciprocal ; and it is another misfortune that mere defects of physical arrangements prevent the married poor from having their social as well as their domestic life in common . A time will come , when the more general application of the co-operative principle in
household economy , will enable the poor to command , without the equivocal instrumentality of public houses , many of those facilities for social enjoyment , eveif in a refined form , which have hitherto been the exclusive portion of the opulent classes . The attention of all real well wishers of the poorer classes should be turned to this most important topic ? But in the mean time , we protest utterly against making the labourer ' s cottage a place of confinement , by refusing him shelter or harbour elsewhere .
\ 9 th May . My Grandmothers Journal—We seldom see the Morning Herald ; but the number for this day accidentally fell into our hands ; and of six articles printed in large type , the following was the purport of five . One was a twaddling defence of the pretensions of the Church to superiority of numbers over the Dissenters ; this wasjthe least ridiculous of the five ; another was a defence of LoTd WynfonTs Sabbath-day Bill ; another of Sir Edward KnatchbuU's Beer Bill . A fourth was a philippic against the Poor Law Bill , and its * bashaws ; ' the fifth , a philippic against omnibuses , with a demand that they be prohibited east of Temple Bar . All this in a single number . Any one of these opinions , except ,
perhap 8 , the last , might singly be held by a person not absolutely destitute of reason ; each is among the extravagancies of some particular creed , when pushed to its utmost ; but no one except' My Grandmother / could have united them . That personage has made up her budget of opinions out of the separate anilities of the sillier part of every existing
party or persuasion . 22 nd May . Death of La / ay ette . —There would . In any circumstances , have been something solemn and affecting in the separation of the last link which connected us with the dawn of American Independence and the youthful enthusiasm of French liberty ; in the extinction of the sole survivor among the great names of the last age . But this feeling must assume a deeper character when he who has departed from us , was the one man who stood before our eyes , and might , it ao seemed ,
have stood for many years longer , the living representative of whatever was best and purest in the spirit , and truest in the traditions of his age . Lafayette not only had lived for mankind , but every year of his existence was precious to them , and grievousl y will he be missed . His was not the influence of genius , nor even of talents ; it was the influence of a heroic character : it was the influence of one who , in every situation , and throughout a loner life , had done and suffered every thing which op-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 449, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/67/
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