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      a certain number of copies of the work , or upon the profits of sale ; and again , that the reprinting of works , which have become public property , afford their authors no further advantage . M . Dam concludes these curious researches with the following observations : — " To conclude : the industry of the press creates annually a sum of nearly 34 millions ,

      and this creation is more peculiarly real and profitable , inasmuch as the original matter is composed of objects almost without any value whatever : rags , lamp black , a little oil , some lead and a few skins , are the only appreciable materials which the paper mill , the printing press , and the binder , derive from other

      exertions . In the language of political economy , labour is the estimate of all value ; but it may be said , with equal justice , that the most noble of ail powers—intellectual power—converts sterile matter into precious objects . It is the privilege of the mind , that to it alone belongs creation . "—Revue Encycloptdique .

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      1811 , which lias been further increased one-fifth in the year just euded .

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      Intelligence . * -Foreign 389

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      Catholic Reformation . In the AUgemeine Kirchen-Zeitung fot last January , is inserted a copy of a recent petition from a part of the Catholic clergy in Silesia to the Archbishop of Breslaw , praying for a reform of the

      Catholic worship . A short accoiiut of this eloquent , forcible , and manly document , for which we are indebted to a friend now in Germany , from whom we hope for further valuable communications , may perhaps be interesting to our readers .

      After speaking of the evils which arise respectively from the opposite inclinations of the over-zealous and the indifferent , and after professing their warm attachment to the Catholic Church , the petitioners proceed as follows : — " But we cannot deny , that in the course of centuries abuses have crept in , and troubled the pure stream of the Gospel ;

      that weeds have luxuriated among the good seed of Christianity , hindered its flourishing growth , and embittered its blessed fruits . " They go on to say , * ' No one can wonder that it should be so . A church which has had to contend with the storms of eighteen centuries , could not remain exempt from the influences of time . Christ , though he has

      promised his continual presence with it , forwards his work by the instrumentality of men , whom he employs as the teachers of his divine truths , and as the shepherds of his flock . What might have been concluded d priori , is confirmed both by history and by the present state of things . The doctrines and the saving morality which Christ preached , have been delivered to us through the apostles .

      fathers , and inspired men , true and pure . But in unessential things , ecclesiastical ordinances and customs , which have been adopted from time to time , to promote the instruction , edification , and salvation of believers , manifold abuses have insinuated themselves . The more these abuses obstruct the efficacy of our religion , the more is it incumbent on us to labour actively for their gradual removal . "

      The petitioners proceed to consider these abuses specifically . They say , " The Catholic worship in the first centuries was a great , holy , awful whole * a communication between clergy and people , an immediate intercourse between God and man : but the brightness

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      GERMANY .

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      Increase of Literature . The following statistical account of the literature of France in 1811 and 1825 is taken from The Courier Franc , ais ; it does not include either official papers or daily journals . In 1811 there were printed— Sheets .

      On Legislation 2 , 831 , 662 On the Sciences 2 , 214 , 303 Philosophy 410 , 298 Political Economy 131 , 133 Military Affairs 1 , 147 , 400 The Fine Arts 161 , 525 Literature 3 , 781 , 826 History 3 , 375 , 891 Divers subjects , Almanacks , &c . l , 885 , 869 Theology 2 , 509752

      Total 18 , 451 , 713 In 1825 , the number had risen to—Legislation 15 , 929 , 839 Sciences 10 , 928 , 277 Philosophy 2 , 804 , 182 Political Economy 2 , 915 , 826

      The Military Art 1 , 457 , 913 The Fine Arts 2 , 937 , 301 Literature 30 , 205 , 158 History 39 , 457 , 957 Different subjects 3 , 886 , 973 Theology 17 , 487 , 037

      Total 128 , 010 , 483 Twenty sheets may be reckoned as a volume , which would give an increase of above 5 , 500 , 000 volumes in 1825 over

  • Citation
    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1827, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1796/page/77/