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    countries , but the arrival of which may , for all , safely be pre " dieted . There seem * no reason why we should mystify thi ^ matter , which it quite as much behoves the king , the states man , and the legislator to consider , as the contemplative philosopher . The recognition of it is essential to all political philosophy , and consequently to all sound political principle . We may think the advance to be practically too rapid or too slow ; we may hold it useful to retard or to accelerate that advance , or to let it alone

    altogether ; but , in any case , our recognition of it will be alike essential to the claims of wisdom or of consistency . The middleman , who overlooks a tendency as striking as it is important , and as resistless as the progression of the seasons ; who strives to manufacture fixed and everlasting principles out of the phenomena of any particular moment of that progression , is the last man who has any claim for attention either on those who sympathize with , or those who deprecate , the great but undeniable

    movement . The ' Morning Chronicle / which , with all its ability , is too often indisposed to look deeper into a subject than just to ascertain whether the Whigs can be pushed up , or : he Tories can be pushed down , took your letter under its especial patronage , giving

    it ' general publicity' as * clever and important / on another ground of confidence in the dicta of halt-and-halt" politicians . - The opinions and public demonstrations of middle public men , of any political section , are entitled to especial notice , because * altkouorh such intermediate characters rarely act on public opinions they resemble bystanders at chess , and usually discern the result of the

    checqueivd contest / It was a * clever and importantdiscovery of the * Chronicle / that a olas- < of persons who do uoc act upoa public opinion must be particularl y deserving of public attention . Sn i i i i " t ^ i - 1 lie cness-boaru analogy is a more ancient ar ^ utneuc . We thought it had been demolished bv Mr . Bailey , in one oi those lucid paragraphs with which his work , on * Keprestutative Government * is so replete . Certain we are that vouir lordshi p does not in this case understand the ^ ame , either oi C ouserv atives or

    Reformers , half so well as those > % ho are piav iu ^ it . Ir you hml > your letter would not have been recommended bv W hi ^ s to the * - — ^ attention of Tories . Nor is vcur lordship a l > - > tauder . You * * ** have your own irame 10 pluw and rather a rLivLish otic . Your position mav r *\ juirv clearsi ^ hrevlness , but c rtainU is not tUvoiirable to it . iVith the jK ) licy of the TorK ^ s > ou r » vtc > s to have but one point of agix ^ viueut , < uxd vet you are tbtit * tor lor u ho ^ e of i > ftiiv . With the Whigs whi j > tx > iess to ha ^ e but outf pouit of dittert iuv ; and \ vt it was onl \ b \ \ our hostility tbac their triumph uv the Hous ^ of i ^ ouiiuoa . N wo ^> eud o-ti ^ erwl or oWW \ « eU ; wluU \ out of doors , their blo&soiuui ^ [ oj . ) uiaii' \ hat > chieav io up | avhenil the deadly blight of \ xhut adiiesiou . Strldocu bu *^ uu \ u \ uu eununl IW Ixiiu ^ elf ^ o uxuvU aversion- Fuiioc ^^ bters , yt > \

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    on ConMtnxUive and Reform AttocuUion * . 430

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/3/