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any practical men , versant with the exact matters in question , feel an interest in the plan whose outline I have sketched , I doubt not that the Editor will be glad to insert any corrections of my errors ,, or any better plan they may have to offer . Our mutual object only tends to the promotion of human welfare , and not to the
advocacy of any personal views . For my own part , I do not envy the ambition of that man who could for a moment prefer an imperfect work of his own to a perfect work of his neighbour-There are two modes of bringing the plan in question to bear . One is by means of subscription amongst the members , as the club-houses were originally founded ; the next is as a speculation of profit , or of good investment to the monied capitalist . Surely , it must be worth the attention of such men as the Messrs . Cubitt ,
—a good name that , for a builder , — -of whom it is said that they will contract with any man too idle to look after his own concern a , ' to build him a house , furnish it , have the beds made , the servants hired , the wines in the cellar , and the dinner cooking , all by a given hour on an appointed day , and issue his dinner invitations into the bargain , if he chooses . ' Lord Grosvcnor , also , is a great
building speculator , and would hardly think profit a less desirable thing , if it came from sixty families in middling circumstances , than from the rents of twenty millionaires in Belgrave-square : or the noble sub-rosd contractor for the digging of the Birmingham railway might perhaps enable some skilful mechanics to take it in hand , for a con-si-de-ra-ti-on .
In the above sketch , I have endeavoured to provide for all the wants and luxuries which , I conceive , can tend to the greatest happiness of rational-minded beings . But it is evident that the same principle might be accommodated to varieties of people in different circumstances . The houses might be built close together without gardens . They might be warmed and lighted in the present imperfect mode , so that the saying might be only in the food and cookery : or , instead of separate dwellings , they
might be sets of apartments in the same building , like the oldfashioned inns : or every luxury that art could devise , might be heaped up in them . But on whatever scale they might be desired ,, 1 contend that such is the most sure mode of getting the greatest possible comfort with the least expenditure of pecuniary means , and also with the greatest freedom from anxiety of mind : for those who wished it , there might be added establishments of horses and carriages to any extent which ostentation might
require . But the class of persons I contemplate are such as are living on fixed salaries of from three hundred to four hundred p « r annum , whose time is principally taken up with business , and who therefore wish to economize all the hours passed out of business , to the greatest possible extent . The best locations of such an establishment in the neighbour-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/53/
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