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iinual cry about poverty , there is more apparent comfort , smart * ness , nay even elegance , to be observed among the population which swarms along the roads leading out of town on Sundays lhan our grandfathers dreamt of , or the grumblers of our day will acknowledge . That there is poverty , no one can deny ; but tlhat it bears any sort of comparison with the real increase in
Eomforts of the working classes we do most advisedly deny . IThousands of working men now wear such clothes as the gentlemen of the last century thought i the outward and visible sign * » f wealth and fashion : with this superiority in dress , there is also a superiority in the carriage , conversation , and tastes of these [ men : they patronize amusements , and visit such places , and mix
up and blend harmoniously with such society , as men of the same rank in the seventeenth century would have thought a man mad if he had said they would cultivate and enjoy . Our periodical literature , which once depended upon gentlemen for its support , Ls now principally upheld by working-men in their reading-rooms and book-societies , &c . ( As a proof of this , a popular newspaper , which we will not name , having advocated certain opinions
inimical to the working interests , immediately fell two thousand in its daily sale . ) Many of the essayists in our best magazines are working-men ; three of our most popular dramatic authors—( one of them certainly second in genius to none who write for the stage)—and several of our most favourite actors—were mechanics . Picture-rooms and galleries for sculpture abound also with the works of these men : —
* Whence came the strength ? How was it nurtured to sucli bursting forth V Knowledge will account for it all . May it increase and multiply yet a thousand-fold ! There is still * ample room and verge enough' for more . But we have to describe the march of Sunday out of town , and not the march of intellect . If it happens to be a fine day , the whole population is on the move ; and not only is everything
aninate in motion , but everything capable of being wheeled , profiled , paddled , oared , or skulled , is in motion also . Infinite is the ^ reparation—indefinite the enjoyments—indeterminate how and n what way the * day of rest * shall be most industriously occuwed with toiling pleasure . * It is a day of rest , ' agree ten housand John Smiths like one ; and accordingly ten thousand fohn Smiths take twenty different roads out of town to eojoy heniselves , the juniors drawing their little brothers and sisters in : hildrcn ' s chaises , trucks , &c . —a labour of love which makes
Aem very hot but excessively happy . Moore considerate senior Smiths spare their heirs-appareut , and harness the thousands of pompeya and Pinchers- —the dog-population of this town—to wilar vehicles ; and if their impatience to set olf with their living K * ds argues their love of the employment , they are happy Ukk
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A London Sunday . £ 65
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No . 92 . 8 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 565, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/35/
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