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that the spiritual is tho potential m the minus that govern the bodies that govern the world . Cut off this mind from the body—how impotent its staggering anil blundering attitude ! Cut off the spirit of First Principles from the mind , the ghastly aspect of death , pallid ancl torpid , ensues ; perverted ancl fiendish the man becomes ; the animal lusts ancl passions usurp the throne of love ancl fraternity . "The mind is governed by laws immutable , but man too often confounds human iuveutions with Divine huvs . Laws Divine , : \ . va
immutable , yet ever adapted to human mutations . Man makes tbe change of action , and pursues one line of action one day , aud alters it the next , because he allows an inferior impulse to regulate him , ancl prefers it to the Divine . This was clearly exemplified in the French revolution ; notwithstanding we ought never to forget the purity of the first sentiment that first set that country iu motion , ancl look upon that grand event as an indication of a new or fresh adaptation of governing influx into this world . * Let us be careful how we denounce it , fraught as it
was in its after course with misery and cruelty . Tbe difficulty in restoring national rectitude can best be seen iu that of the individual . How conflicting , how vacillating , is our own progress , aud all because our house is not made clean within , so that when tbe good enters , evils combat against the good , conflicts ensue , struggles of life aud death shake the whole frame of man ; for the powerful enemy within can only be driven out by a greater power than he , aud that power we cannot sec with naked eyes , so we forget often to call in that aid ; or selfhood
shuts the door against him , or hatred enters too strongly into our composition—yea , the hatred of the wrong , causing us to do wrong to conquer wrong . Shall I say the French did wrong to overcome wrong ? Shall I say Louis XVI . did I Mirabeau did ? Lafayette did ? Marat did ? Camille , Deuioulin , Danton , ancl Robespierre did ? I know it is too often clone b y all . Had Robespierre relied less upon human reason , and sought more for the elementary law from . Divine wisdom , to guide the grand movementthe movement would have been less errant and more
, successful . Had he studied infinite aud universal laws and human weakness more , aud Jean Jaques Rousseau less , and paused to look into himself , aud raise his thoughts from thence to tbe Infinite Governing Power , the Ruler by primary principles , the cause of legislative progress might not have been retarded so much , nor have suffered so much by bad examples . " Ifjthendifficulty exists in individualshow much greater must be
. , , that difficulty iu nations composed of millions of individuals . Man cannot command himself . Who , theu , can command and govern nations but the Omnipotent 1 How weak must man be in all his vaunted salt-sufficient strength , who does not demean himself to power omnipotent—everywhere , iu everything .
' 'lne grand mistake in that revolution was , that tho Church—though shaken , made to totter—never fell ; nor by protestation was it changed . Now bottles were not substituted for the old , but the old bottles were left with new wine ; so that the little good tbut remained iu their papistical vessels soon burst , and was shed abroad , and emptiness characterised again their gilded walls . " No temple representing First Principles had been raised from the embers of the revolution . So conflicting- dynasties and factious soon tlle
i " i ¦' 1 ° f I 1 ' 0 " ' l aU is la 3 t il S '' l " > le ! lviug not even a wreck behind ^ England ' s dynastic duration in permanence may be explained by the fact of the obscuration , if not by the extinction of the lineage of the bygone Plantagenets and Tudors . If the Stuarts be not extinct , the House is allowed but that durance vile , whieh , were it presumptive , ™ " . be , vorae tll ! U 1 annihilation . But the planting of the footsteps of William and Mary ou the land of Great Britain was not to perpetuate an old state of thingswhich hud become distasteful because of its
, corruption , but the Hanoverian House was regarded as synonymous with progress both iu Church and State . Our existing royalists in the nineteenth century must not , then , ignore , nor mistake , the mission of our present House of Hanover ; lor , certain it is that , if Great Britain go not forward , she will retrograde . She must be continually advancing in that reformation , both in Church and State , which characterized the throne that the Prince of ascendedcomprehending he did
Orange , , as , the genius of the people over whom he came to reign . Let not our Sovereign ' s best and most devoted subjects forget the genius of this clay , as France in her backslidings is now doing , has often done , and will ever do , as long as First Principles are not recognized—first in an everreforming and progressing Church ; next iu the same ever-reforming ancl progressing state . Let Great Britain never forget her mission , as France , through her Louis Napoleon , has done . He thafc should have raised ji to
' runce a glorious second empire has corrupted her very institutions , dissipated her once hopeful position as the leader in the constitutional liberties of Europe , driven into exile tho best spirits of France , crushed the press , menaced every voter—until all has become servile submission to the WILE , * OXE BAD MAX , who is so rapidly approaching the acme of infamy , that his fall is inevitable , unless he speedily retrace , and find his own best interest lies in doing good . "
Alter the above is it necessary for us to offer a single comment to show that the philosophy of iirst principles , such as Mr . Grossmith lays down and applauds , is neither more nor less than the overthrow of all human institutions by democratic violence , and a baptism of blood and slaughter in the place of " peace on earth iuul goodwill towards men . "
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We cannot follow our author through all his wonderful speculations , but must content our readers ivith a glance at one or two of the titles of his chapters such , for instance , as that , where Power is ( said to be ) the Standard of Hell ; Virtue and Justice , form the Standard of Heaven . Chapter lxxxvii . is on The Remedy for Excessive Wealth , and here we have a novel scheme proposed , viz ., that an individual once in possession of £ 100 , 000 , a law should compel lus
him to cease acquiring more for himself—dividing any surp among his relatives , or devoting it to an industrial fund to start honest , needy and poor working people in life . Or he proposes the alternative of such a one should be , to cause him to go on paying taxes in an increased ratio . "We are then treated to several chapters which , rather late in the day , combat the Malthusian doctrines . We have also a slap at Paley and Oliver Goldsmith
—the legitimate aim of journalism ; and a chapter headed " The Times " Journal is the Barrier to Progress . After this the philosopher is obliged to come down from his pinnacle of wisdom and admit a chapter to prove that Money is power ! with most wretched philosophy . AVe cannot refrain from citing one or two suppositions from the conjectural estimate of the property and incomes of Great Britain . We are told to suppose that there are
five men worth £ 10 , 000 , 000 , fifty worth £ 3 , 000 , 000 , and one hundred £ 1 , 000 , 000 , which we believe to be three of the most fallacious conjectures ever penned . We have also a chapter on The Abolition of Sinecures , with a long list of names aud proposed
reductions , one of which certainly is funny from the manner in which it is put forward , viz ., " Mecklenburgh Strelitz , Prince of , on Consolidated Fund of Ireland . ( This foreigner , doing us uo good nor any service , let it all cease ) , £ 1788 . " In the Appendix on Imperial Revenue and Expenditure there are some pretty long lists of pensioners on the country , but no country can subsist without rewards for services , and almost every individual now on
the civil list is fairly reaping the reward of their own exertions or receiving that acknowledgment from the country that their forefathers ought to have been in receipt of whilst living . We know the old proverb " that a live jackass is better than a dead lion , " but if the lion was neglected in his days of strength , wasted for the benefit of the country , or , as is more frequentl y the case , improperlpaid for his labourwe cannot see the impropriety in
y , endeavouring to make good the injustice in the person of his descendants . Nay , more , upon what ive consider first principles , every labourer is worthy of liis hire , and if that hire be not duly discharged to him in his own day , is it not a duty that , at any rate , his seed should not suffer after him ? We hold it to be so , and although there are and always will be many abuses in tlie administration of this and every other country , yet they are not
to be philosophised away , particularly when the philosophy that would eradicate them has nothing better to offer than Causality and the Beign of Terror as its grand exponents of the True and Beautiful .
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART . THE professorship of Modern History at Cambridge is still vacant , and the long delay in filling up the appointment is much animadverted upon . The Times in vain took up the matter , and last week Mr . Steuart , one of the members for Cambridge , put a question in tho House of Commons to Sir G . C . Lewis , from whom be got no satisfactory information . The CambridChronicle states that MrSteuart has obtained from Lord
ge . Palmerston a more definite reply to his question . ¦ It appears that the professorship bas been offered to several distinguished persons , who have declined to accept it . The delay , therefore , in filling up the vacancy is attributable to the difficulty of finding a person of standing and reputation willing to accept the post . This explanation is deemed at Cambridge in the highest degree unsatisfactory , as it is well known
that the office has been applied for by several gentlemen whose qualifications are undoubted . The author of "The Bible in Spain , " aud " Lavengro" will always have it in his power to create au interest in the novel reading and amusement seeking public ; but at the same time the announcement of a new book from his eccentric pen engenders a pleasing curiosity beyond that circle of triflers . Mr . George Borrow has not been heard of in
literature since "ltominauy Rye , " although for many years he is said to had something like twenty works , chiefly the fruits of his immense philological knowledge , ready for publication . Among Mr . Murray ' s announcements is one of a new work by Mr . Borrow , "The Sleeping Bard ; or , Visions of the World , Death , and Hell , translated from the Cambrian British of Elis AVyn . " At the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the graces presented to the Senate arc always couched in the Latin tongue , and it is amusing t °
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that the spiritual is tho potential m the minus that govern the bodies that govern the world . Cut off this mind from the body—how impotent its staggering anil blundering attitude ! Cut off the spirit of First Principles from the mind , the ghastly aspect of death , pallid ancl torpid , ensues ; perverted ancl fiendish the man becomes ; the animal lusts ancl passions usurp the throne of love ancl fraternity . "The mind is governed by laws immutable , but man too often confounds human iuveutions with Divine huvs . Laws Divine , : \ . va
immutable , yet ever adapted to human mutations . Man makes tbe change of action , and pursues one line of action one day , aud alters it the next , because he allows an inferior impulse to regulate him , ancl prefers it to the Divine . This was clearly exemplified in the French revolution ; notwithstanding we ought never to forget the purity of the first sentiment that first set that country iu motion , ancl look upon that grand event as an indication of a new or fresh adaptation of governing influx into this world . * Let us be careful how we denounce it , fraught as it
was in its after course with misery and cruelty . Tbe difficulty in restoring national rectitude can best be seen iu that of the individual . How conflicting , how vacillating , is our own progress , aud all because our house is not made clean within , so that when tbe good enters , evils combat against the good , conflicts ensue , struggles of life aud death shake the whole frame of man ; for the powerful enemy within can only be driven out by a greater power than he , aud that power we cannot sec with naked eyes , so we forget often to call in that aid ; or selfhood
shuts the door against him , or hatred enters too strongly into our composition—yea , the hatred of the wrong , causing us to do wrong to conquer wrong . Shall I say the French did wrong to overcome wrong ? Shall I say Louis XVI . did I Mirabeau did ? Lafayette did ? Marat did ? Camille , Deuioulin , Danton , ancl Robespierre did ? I know it is too often clone b y all . Had Robespierre relied less upon human reason , and sought more for the elementary law from . Divine wisdom , to guide the grand movementthe movement would have been less errant and more
, successful . Had he studied infinite aud universal laws and human weakness more , aud Jean Jaques Rousseau less , and paused to look into himself , aud raise his thoughts from thence to tbe Infinite Governing Power , the Ruler by primary principles , the cause of legislative progress might not have been retarded so much , nor have suffered so much by bad examples . " Ifjthendifficulty exists in individualshow much greater must be
. , , that difficulty iu nations composed of millions of individuals . Man cannot command himself . Who , theu , can command and govern nations but the Omnipotent 1 How weak must man be in all his vaunted salt-sufficient strength , who does not demean himself to power omnipotent—everywhere , iu everything .
' 'lne grand mistake in that revolution was , that tho Church—though shaken , made to totter—never fell ; nor by protestation was it changed . Now bottles were not substituted for the old , but the old bottles were left with new wine ; so that the little good tbut remained iu their papistical vessels soon burst , and was shed abroad , and emptiness characterised again their gilded walls . " No temple representing First Principles had been raised from the embers of the revolution . So conflicting- dynasties and factious soon tlle
i " i ¦' 1 ° f I 1 ' 0 " ' l aU is la 3 t il S '' l " > le ! lviug not even a wreck behind ^ England ' s dynastic duration in permanence may be explained by the fact of the obscuration , if not by the extinction of the lineage of the bygone Plantagenets and Tudors . If the Stuarts be not extinct , the House is allowed but that durance vile , whieh , were it presumptive , ™ " . be , vorae tll ! U 1 annihilation . But the planting of the footsteps of William and Mary ou the land of Great Britain was not to perpetuate an old state of thingswhich hud become distasteful because of its
, corruption , but the Hanoverian House was regarded as synonymous with progress both iu Church and State . Our existing royalists in the nineteenth century must not , then , ignore , nor mistake , the mission of our present House of Hanover ; lor , certain it is that , if Great Britain go not forward , she will retrograde . She must be continually advancing in that reformation , both in Church and State , which characterized the throne that the Prince of ascendedcomprehending he did
Orange , , as , the genius of the people over whom he came to reign . Let not our Sovereign ' s best and most devoted subjects forget the genius of this clay , as France in her backslidings is now doing , has often done , and will ever do , as long as First Principles are not recognized—first in an everreforming and progressing Church ; next iu the same ever-reforming ancl progressing state . Let Great Britain never forget her mission , as France , through her Louis Napoleon , has done . He thafc should have raised ji to
' runce a glorious second empire has corrupted her very institutions , dissipated her once hopeful position as the leader in the constitutional liberties of Europe , driven into exile tho best spirits of France , crushed the press , menaced every voter—until all has become servile submission to the WILE , * OXE BAD MAX , who is so rapidly approaching the acme of infamy , that his fall is inevitable , unless he speedily retrace , and find his own best interest lies in doing good . "
Alter the above is it necessary for us to offer a single comment to show that the philosophy of iirst principles , such as Mr . Grossmith lays down and applauds , is neither more nor less than the overthrow of all human institutions by democratic violence , and a baptism of blood and slaughter in the place of " peace on earth iuul goodwill towards men . "
Literature. Reviews.
We cannot follow our author through all his wonderful speculations , but must content our readers ivith a glance at one or two of the titles of his chapters such , for instance , as that , where Power is ( said to be ) the Standard of Hell ; Virtue and Justice , form the Standard of Heaven . Chapter lxxxvii . is on The Remedy for Excessive Wealth , and here we have a novel scheme proposed , viz ., that an individual once in possession of £ 100 , 000 , a law should compel lus
him to cease acquiring more for himself—dividing any surp among his relatives , or devoting it to an industrial fund to start honest , needy and poor working people in life . Or he proposes the alternative of such a one should be , to cause him to go on paying taxes in an increased ratio . "We are then treated to several chapters which , rather late in the day , combat the Malthusian doctrines . We have also a slap at Paley and Oliver Goldsmith
—the legitimate aim of journalism ; and a chapter headed " The Times " Journal is the Barrier to Progress . After this the philosopher is obliged to come down from his pinnacle of wisdom and admit a chapter to prove that Money is power ! with most wretched philosophy . AVe cannot refrain from citing one or two suppositions from the conjectural estimate of the property and incomes of Great Britain . We are told to suppose that there are
five men worth £ 10 , 000 , 000 , fifty worth £ 3 , 000 , 000 , and one hundred £ 1 , 000 , 000 , which we believe to be three of the most fallacious conjectures ever penned . We have also a chapter on The Abolition of Sinecures , with a long list of names aud proposed
reductions , one of which certainly is funny from the manner in which it is put forward , viz ., " Mecklenburgh Strelitz , Prince of , on Consolidated Fund of Ireland . ( This foreigner , doing us uo good nor any service , let it all cease ) , £ 1788 . " In the Appendix on Imperial Revenue and Expenditure there are some pretty long lists of pensioners on the country , but no country can subsist without rewards for services , and almost every individual now on
the civil list is fairly reaping the reward of their own exertions or receiving that acknowledgment from the country that their forefathers ought to have been in receipt of whilst living . We know the old proverb " that a live jackass is better than a dead lion , " but if the lion was neglected in his days of strength , wasted for the benefit of the country , or , as is more frequentl y the case , improperlpaid for his labourwe cannot see the impropriety in
y , endeavouring to make good the injustice in the person of his descendants . Nay , more , upon what ive consider first principles , every labourer is worthy of liis hire , and if that hire be not duly discharged to him in his own day , is it not a duty that , at any rate , his seed should not suffer after him ? We hold it to be so , and although there are and always will be many abuses in tlie administration of this and every other country , yet they are not
to be philosophised away , particularly when the philosophy that would eradicate them has nothing better to offer than Causality and the Beign of Terror as its grand exponents of the True and Beautiful .
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART . THE professorship of Modern History at Cambridge is still vacant , and the long delay in filling up the appointment is much animadverted upon . The Times in vain took up the matter , and last week Mr . Steuart , one of the members for Cambridge , put a question in tho House of Commons to Sir G . C . Lewis , from whom be got no satisfactory information . The CambridChronicle states that MrSteuart has obtained from Lord
ge . Palmerston a more definite reply to his question . ¦ It appears that the professorship bas been offered to several distinguished persons , who have declined to accept it . The delay , therefore , in filling up the vacancy is attributable to the difficulty of finding a person of standing and reputation willing to accept the post . This explanation is deemed at Cambridge in the highest degree unsatisfactory , as it is well known
that the office has been applied for by several gentlemen whose qualifications are undoubted . The author of "The Bible in Spain , " aud " Lavengro" will always have it in his power to create au interest in the novel reading and amusement seeking public ; but at the same time the announcement of a new book from his eccentric pen engenders a pleasing curiosity beyond that circle of triflers . Mr . George Borrow has not been heard of in
literature since "ltominauy Rye , " although for many years he is said to had something like twenty works , chiefly the fruits of his immense philological knowledge , ready for publication . Among Mr . Murray ' s announcements is one of a new work by Mr . Borrow , "The Sleeping Bard ; or , Visions of the World , Death , and Hell , translated from the Cambrian British of Elis AVyn . " At the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge the graces presented to the Senate arc always couched in the Latin tongue , and it is amusing t °