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they unmake him also ; the one process implying that they grow from a sound mind and feeling heart ; the other , that they are the varnish of selfishness , insolence , cold licentiousness , and sickly inanity . From what class of the community has a woman most reason to apprehend interruption and insult 1 By whose practices is the nightly tide of misery that overflows the streets of the metropolis sustained against the rapid absorption of the grave ? Who were most on the alert for such
gratification as the late trial was expected to yield for prurient impertinence ; for such occasion as it might afford to obscene allusion ? Whose hands raked ( and under whose stimulating approval ) that kennel of menial immodesty , which has never been so paddled in since the memorable days of non mi ricordo ?
Almost as shameless in the defeat of the intrigue as they would have been insolent in its success , and as they were foul and gross in its conception , the clique that plumes itself on combining the licentious frivolity of aristocracy with the crooked politics of Toryism , has sealed its own doom of universal reprobation and undying scorn . To have gained a
party point by crushing an erring woman , would have been disgraceful enough ; the descent has been effected into a lower deep of infamy by a baffled conspiracy against an innocent woman . O the soi disant gentlemen ! If their own foultongued and drunken varlets do not regard them with contempt and disgust , they will be the sole exception from the
feelings of the community . Let them cherish that sympathy while yet it remain ^ - Liveries are not yet seen , and when once they do appear , it will not be for long , within the walls of Mechanics Institutes . The bear-garden shouts with which the age-of-chivalry faction in the House of Commons answered Mr . Roebuck's recent
challenge to compare the Unstamped Press with the favourite newspapers of the aristocracy and the clergy , as to decency of language and abstinence from personal calumny , were the most characteristic reply that could be given . No other response indeed could come from such epicures in taste ! And if the acuter foes of popular knowledge will cast in their lot for power and pelf with the " faction of fools , " they must endure
the disgrace , hoping for the coming of pay day , and for better lack with the next lady whose wit may make a Whig minister rejoice that there is " no House to-day . " The vanity of aristocracy will have some reason to cherish itself as long as there are beautiful opera-singers and dancers , and talented men who will do anything for hire , and prostrate themselves before the patronage , which a feeling of the superiority of their own physical or mental being should make them spurn .
The worst species of prostitution is that in which mind is hired , not directly to gratify the taate of the paymaster , but to serve liU
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/3/
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