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The names hy which various classes of society are designated , having by long use lost their original signification , it would be highly desirable to establish a new set of names for classes of persons , moTe distinctive of their qualities ; and at the same time , if the qualities themselves were to undergo revision , as the meanings of terms are settled previous to a philosophical discussion , much mystification would be removed from the
minds of readers and reasoners ; something after the following fashion . The principal clashes of society as at present constituted , are fifteen in number .
First . —King-men—i . e . " IIin Majesty" and blood relations . The word King originally signified a leader of the people ; but in our times it has wholly lost that meaning , and now either implies a driver of the people , or a species of human puppet \ ised to hang certain state robes upon , wherein he may play Punch on the large scale . The wires which move this Punch are
usually kept out of sight as carefully as possible , yet none but gulls are deceived by the stratagem . The fourth Guelph had an original tendency to l > e a driver , but indolence prevented him , and he became a Punch . lUit the admirers of our present " Gracious Sovereign , " say that lie is the very p ink and flower of all that is excellent in Sailors and Kings , and the
Attorney-Cieneral would call it Treason to gainsay it . Secondly . —IMrtk-men—i . e . people who claim consideration from society on account of the accident of birth , without regard
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Underneath the tree of ages , Many a merry song sung we—Carv'd his rind , and kissed his shadow ; Oh we lov'd the glorious tree ! Now , alas , no sky of branches Shelters mine , and shelters me ! Now , alas , the tree of Poland Now is fall ' n , as low can be ! And as on Euphrates' waters , When the mournful moonbeam slept , Israel ' s wanderers , sad for Zion , With the weeping * willows wept ; So we mourn , and all unheeded , Make our roof th' unpillow'd sky ; So we roam , and friendless , hopeless , Shed the tear of memory .
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SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/24/
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