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rates , but inclination unites us ; ' for they do meet ,, and the fate that will not let their union be entire , makes what union there is the more firm and enduring . There is a moral for all those who would forbid the natures , which rush to each other , to mingle ;* they must , they do ; though it be but in a dream , that dream binds their souls for ever . Look at yon hooded monk ! Well is it that the No Popery' cry is over , or surely they would have him down as an upholder of his holiness . There , though you may neither see nor believe , is a Cupid and Psyche . Strange that the curve of that huge mass of rough brickwork should suggest the exquisite language and grace of that lovely and loving pair . The old sign of ' the Crooked Billet' has in it the same
sort of magic—its tortuosity suggesting the far-famed statue of the dying gladiator . Here is more work for ^ Eolus , or Fame if she will , in her flight over the earth ! An inkstand-looking house for her to dip her recording quill into . A Tunbridge toy sort of place , with square grey roof , and the chimnies for the pens—chimnies for pens ! poor little lads , who have too often found pens in our chimnies ! The English negro race , ( our inky brethren , for they are our brethren , though we may disown them , ) ' born with the same organs , dimensions , senses , atfec * tions , passions , fed with the same food , ( no , not with the same food , but they would eat it if they could have it 9 ) hurt with the same weapons , subject to the same diseases , warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer / and sometimes warmed to death in a service to which man and woman should be ashamed to doom them . Poor fellows ! they are a race apart , and the very avoidance of contact with them in our streets must tend to unhumanize them . Let us not think of their i inky soot alone , ' but remember that they have e that within which passeth show ; ' minds to comprehend and hearts to feel ; and let us all employ , for their salvation , that great physical Saviourmachinery .
And now the light is diminishing , and how richly and blackly come out the forms against the twilight sky ! There is no longer the detail of brick and mortar ; they are dark and massy in their mingled sameness and variety of form . Darker and darker—and now they are all asleep in the moonlight . There is a charm in moonlight to harmonize buildings that by day are full of strange incongruities ; there is a charm in moonlight to harmonize man into the disposition to admire the beautiful , rather than detect the defective . That church , which by day is the imperfect work of an inferior architect , to-night is like a classic temple of the olden worship . Calm , bri g ht , and hallowed it is , as if spirits were worshipping within it and around it . Look ! what is that ? it flashes like one of earth ' s purest brilliants ; or like a star new fallen from heaven . Where ? there ! at the topmost corner of the eastern end . Strange ! Is it a spirit risen from the graves
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58 A Chapter on Chimnies .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/58/
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