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of the golden age , which it should be , according to our author ' s proposition t would be such a return , through misery to barbarism , as appals the imagination . Can the author point out any one manufacture in which the number of persons employed , has been permanently diminished , or has not eventually increased , by the introduction of machinery ? and if not , what becomes of his leading proposition ?
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Dr . Langs Theory of the Polynesian Nation . 7 s . 6 d . The theory of the author is , that America was originally peopled from the South Sea Islands ; and that these weTe colonized from the * ancient Malayan empire , ' in the island of Sumatra . This view of the origin and the migrations of the Polynesians is supported with much ingenuity and industry . Many curious correspondences between the manners , customs , languages , &c . of the Indians of America , of the South Sea ,
and of China , are adduced as evidence of original identity ; and , in some remarkable differences , are detected the dates of the supposed migrations . The first portion of the hypothesis is not improbable ; but the second is encumbered with too much difficulty to be received as the solution of the old problem of the peopling of America . Civilization
does not travel in stray canoes , feeding on human flesh by the way ; nor can the materials of empire be drifted across the waters like the frame-work of a ship or galley . The founders of the Mexican state must have had ampler means than could have belonged to a shipwrecked cargo of wandering islanders , differing in no respect from the progenitors of the New Zealand savages .
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France , Social , Literary , and Political . By H . L . Bulvver . 2 vols . Should anybody neglect these volumes , ( as we hear that some persons are disposed to do , ) merely because Henry Lytton Bulwer is not Edtoard Lytton Bulwer , they will do a foolish thing , and be punished as they deserve , by the act itself . In spite of some pretension , and some affectation , this work is rich in amusement and in information .
We are at present only favoured with a portion of it ; and , apparently , it will require three or four volumes more to complete the author ' s plan . From the sketch before us , we hope this national portrait will be completed . The epitomized view of M . Guerry ' s * Statistique morale de la France * particularly deserves attention .
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Godwin * s Lives of the Necromancers . Mr . Godwin cannot but write eloquently and powerfully ; and the subject of this work is one which even a mucii inferior pen must have made interesting . Yet , though interested , we are not altogether satisfied . The author does not seem to have gone into it con amore , but rather to have treated it as moral task-work . We would rather that it had
been within / the scope of this book' to show the modes in which the delusion acts upon the person through whom it operates . ' Mr . Godwin would have excelled in such an exhibition , and might have produced a philosophy of magical biography worthy of the author of that g lorious romance , * St . Leon . ' Still we are thankful for what he has done , and feel the truth of his apology for not doing more , viz . that he loves ' m the foremost place , to contemplate man in all his honours , » nd in all the exaltation of wisdom and virtue . '
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746 Critical Notices .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 746, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/72/
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