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    Campbell is still the bard of Patriotism and of Hope . What is all the sadness , which , like the wailings of an ^ Eolian harp , breathes over the blended poetry and philosophy of the criticisms of Carlyle , but the discontent which we have endeavoured to define ,, the impulsiveness of a nature too noble for its sphere ,

    towards one more in accordance with its capacity . * In strange contrast as they are with this , and with each other , yet is the same principle at work in the very different manifestations of the metaphysical moodiness of Tennyson , and the denunciations of Ebenezer Elliot . As for political and moral philosophy , almost all that we have of it is twin-born with Reform . It was cradled in

    Westminster . The Philosophers are the Reformers . The two great powers of mind ,, the logical and the imaginative faculties , have both , in their advance , shown themselves identified , often with the faith , and always with the fact , of the movement towards an improved and improving condition of society . Amid these general , and , as it were , floating tendencies , all through the intellectual world , often unperceived , and often vainly

    abjured , by individual minds , it could not be but what there should be some , many , in whom their spirit would become more distinctly incorporate , and with whom the amelioration of social institutions and arrangements , as subservient to the progression of human nature , would form itself into their being ' s end and aim , ' and acquire the energy of a determined purpose , a

    principle , a passion , a religion . And such there are , scattered over the country ; their union of purpose and of purity being the pledge of that country ' s redemption . They have no party to strengthen but that which best advances principles . They advocate no interests but those which best subserve the great common interest . They do not one day worship a political idol , and the next throw him to the moles and the bats with every species of contumely . They measure their zeal by the degree of utility and not by the temporary convenience of factions . If unconnected with permanent good for the people , the triumphs of party do not satisfy them , nor its defeats dismay them . While no momentary advantage can divert them from a principle , they are the furthest of all men from being unpractical . Like one of their greatest

    precursors , Milton , the heart of each ' the lowliest burdens on itself will lay . ' They know that in doing well the work of the day , they best labour for futurity . In their course there is a perfect unity of direction . Hence they have a power , a constantly expanding power , seldom perceived , continually felt . They are the central force of Reform . They are its enduring missionaries ; they would not hesitate to become its martyrs . There are no such men in the ranks of Whigism , nor in those of Toryism , nor are they prominent amongst the yet unorganized troops of Radicalism . Some of the public zeal for Reform by which the Whigs were borne into power , and now think to regain power , may , perhaps ;

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    6 The True Spirit of Reform .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/6/