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    a republic , the baa La of their republicanism woujd be taken from under ibem ; for the Times / and most of those Who have written against these people , utterly mistake their character and spirit . Instead of wishiqg that the present system should work ill , in order that they may oltain one , founded , as they think , on better speculative principles , their habit is to disregard even to excess , the nominal principle and spirit of a nation ' s institutions , provided the immediate and definite practical interests of society are provided for by such Jaws , and such organs of administration , as are conformable to their views .

    2 bth May . Honours to Science I—The Examiner , in its number of this day , ( the best which has appeared for several weeks , ) denounces with a proper feeling the slavish spirit of a correspondent of the ' Times / who , after a long preamble on the importance of showing honour to science , sets forth as a distinguished instance of it , that the King spoke to Dr . Dalton at the levee . There is something , to our minds , unspeakably degrading to the literary and scientific men of this country , in the eager avidity with which they are laying themselves out for the paltriest marks of court notice : those , even , which have become ridiculous to all men of the jpo rld , and for which they are competitors , not with the aristocracy , but with those whom the aristocracy laugh at and despise . Think of the pitiable vanity with which so many of these people have allowed themselves to be dubbed Guelphic Knights . With this abject spirit in our intellectual men , who can wonder if honour is not shown to intellect ? They have put their own value upon themselves , and have rated it at the smallest coin , current in the market .

    It is a vain and frivolous notion , that of showing honour : the honour which is worth showing is that which is felt ; and that shows itself , not by gome one premeditated demonstration , but as a pervading spirit , through the whole conduct of those who feel it . Who says it is not important that those who are at the head of the State should have reverence for intellect ? But will they ever have that reverence until intellect shall be the source of their own elevation ? The consideration , which

    is gained by nobleness of character , men of science and letters have the same opportunities of acquiru ^ as other people , — the only other source of consideration is power . Wo what we will , where in any state of society the power is , there also will the honour be . Society , with regard to the source of power , may exist in two different states : in the one , what confers power is intellect ; in the other , wealth and station ; the former state has never yet been realized , though some societies have

    approached nearer to it than others , and all are tending towards it , in proportion as they improve ; the latter , exists in England , and in most countries in Europe ^ Now , is it a rational expectation that while power shall still accompany wealth and station exclusively , the honour which always goes with power , can be diverted from it , and become an appendage of intellect ? And ia it not a mean ambition in persons of intellect to desire a merely reflected honour , derived from the passing notice of people of wealth and station ? Precisely the same kind of honour which poets enjoyed when they were domestics in the household of great men . ^ EThere are but two station s in the affairs of the world , which can , iffthout dishonour , be taken up by those who follow the pursuits of

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    464 Notes on the Nempaper * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/72/