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    to sleep ; it gives not comforts only but also cheap elegancies , such as are within every one ' s reach . There is none of that compound , called , technically , ' halfpenny head and farthing heels ; ' all is congruous as far as it goes , no ugly furniture appears to render unavailing the beauty of the edifice . Yet well as Mr . Loudon has done all tfrx& , and well as James

    Luckcock has laid down rules for the management of the households of Mr . Loudon ' s dwellings ; it still seems to me that all is a provision for the genius of the present age , rather than of the coming one , as Mr . Loudon himself has hinted . The principle of utility is carried out , but it is not carried out to the full extent . The architecture is as yet but that of a number of parts , it is not built up into a beautiful whole . The economy is also good , but it is

    only a partial good , which has yet to be carried out into the great saving scheme , which , for want of a better name , I must designate social living : all hitherto is but a repetition of labours an hundred times over . The great object in economy is to save

    unnecessary labour and unnecessary waste of food , without , at the same time , trenching upon any source of personal comfort , without giving convenience and happiness in barter for mere economy . The object is to save personal trouble , at the same time with pecuniary means . All this may be accomplished , but the means require a careful examination .

    Of course the treaders in ancient footsteps , the adherents of ancient prejudice , and the disbelievers in human progression , will at once exclaim against any plan of the kind , as being the destruction of all that which they , in their love of tyranny or in their ignorance of real comfort , call domestic comfort . There are many good ladies who devoutly believe that the essence of human happiness consists in chronicling small beer , in directing and helping

    the cook , " superintending washings and brewings , and bad wine makings , seeing that beds are well aired , and above all exercising arbitrary power over domestic servants , who are not allowed the privilege of reply even to the most unjust charges . Such beings exist , made thus selfish by their mischievous training , and continuing the evil by their mischievous training of those

    who are to come after them . But such beings , though they constitute a large number , do not constitute the whole of the community . There are sufficient with perceptions clear enough to understand that food and clothes , and shelter and warmth , though perfectly necessary for the due maintenance and enjoyment of life , are by no means the ends of life , and they well understand that

    the best means of supplying all their material wants are those which do so with the greatest economy of personal trouble to themselves , and with the least possible dependence on the personal labour of others . Many , even amongst philosophically-minded people , complain of the imperfection of servants . This is a necessary evil , for were it not for that very imperfection there would

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    492 Housebuilding and Housekeeping .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/32/