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there t * but that , if it be not positively tx * t * r , * t l <** tf ifci f O # inferior to the English Poor-law system . W # hope Jmfcb&r cession will not paid fwa y without its having been duly xag + Ctotk the legislature , a * the only remedy for Ireland * : T We conduct with the Ifcst paragraph of Mr He vans ' * able patftpMet : —
" During the last ten years , measure after measure has been p&tsetl for the improvement of Ireland , acts against subletting , for emancipation , for coercion , for peace-prc 6 erving , for grand jury improvements , and for a variety of othe * r purposes j but the people of Ireland are netetthfetass just as wretched and just as turbulent as they * # * fe tw # M € t or fifty years back , although , of each mtauure ia uce * MJoa ,
the tranquillity of Ireland has been prophesied * The sane degree < tf wretchedness , the same degree of turbulence will exist a century hence , for anything which any measure I have ever heard proposed for Ireland will do , in the absence of a poor law . A people ever p , n the brink of starvation will ever be irritable , ever anxious fbf change , under the impression that change may improve their condition , but caritiot injure them . Some assert that the constant excitement in tfeat
country i » the cause of the poverty , but sufficient has been $ aid to show it is not the cause , but the consequence . A poor law must be the ground-work of improvement in Ireland . Until a provision shaft b * created for the destitute , legislating for that country 13 like building on the aand . " The reason dailv assigned for legislating differently fot * ' -Irtfttttt , is the difference in the social state of that country , which c *> hsitsfo the existence of a wealthy and intelligent middle class in Eft £ Ktt § , and the almost total absence of such a class in Ireland . W ^ lRVve
already seen that , in the absence of a provision for the de * tt * rt * v the introduction and the accumulation of capital in Itftlind ft # e tUfcCft imnoAsible , and hence the impossibility of a middle class ta ^ Xoite and direct the energies of the people , and develop the readWcet ^ f the sister kingdom / ' . ¦ ~ u
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A P&puktr View of ' the Pragreti of Philosophy among iiit Anciamis . By J . T . Smith . ¦ . i . A neat , succinct , and useful compendium of the fiffit eha ^ tifr-fti the world ' s Intelleettiai history . We wish it txtemtoe Wr < ittUition . The self-taught may derive from it very valuable'aM ^ ifftd with the sdqeatfed ^ ^ y « erv e to revive ana condense tb 4 resulti of extensive reading . It would have been in better tafte had th * author ftV ^ ided the te chnicalities of Phrenology , and b ^ t-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/59/
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