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    • COJVTRABAJSm MORALS.
    • THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK.
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      The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

      THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . " INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PR / ETERIT . "

      No. 51j London, April 25, 1868. [Price T...

      No . 51 J LONDON , APRIL 25 , 1868 . [ Price Twopence .

      Cojvtrabajsm Morals.

      COJVTRABAJSm MORALS .

      From There The Other Are Many Side Thing...

      from There the other are many side things of the which Channel we . may In their copy with munici advant pal and age works poor law for administration the popular benefit , and , generall they set y us in a their very good arrying examp out le of , which imitating we . are But content there are , for several the most things part which , to admire we import without from it France necessary besides to wine spoil , and before which adopting , like the as wine our , own we . often We think load with French morality claret with and expect Hermitage V ^^ U both uuill , just to as we load that LUCK French lightness llLUtOO comedies and

      flavour v » iiu But Jlii , while which Ji O . J . JLl . J' we , , charm CVLJ adulterate . U . V- ^ VjJ us so much the good in preserve JJ their 1 C 3 things C 1 VC own which country . llg we . procure ailU vices from our by adding neighbours a coarseness , we seem which likely to is peculiarl improve y upon our their own . which Without distinguished the high-bred the courtesy manners , and attention of the old to petty comedies elegancies , the libertinism repulsive ; , and which that is their pretty very much life and the case irit with , would Eng be lish simp imi ly - with tations rrxiu the LUi must of ^ manners uiauuv French claim . ii ] vices of isx to a be . kjxx Sir ; you j John \ jjlxjljl then Brute xii have from uiCi . the morals of a Rochester ,

      native of We things of no French country simp : it ly acquitted is because engrained they , are in any human French unreasoning nature . Vice hatred and is the is onl condition y modified of society in different , or by the countries national , either temperament by the . temporary But , it is the certainly elegance the of fact the that tinselled France robe has al in ways which been vice pre is -eminent decked ; for in fact comedians , the French in the world always . They have alone been , can as a act nation , and , the naturall greatest y , those of its grossness pretty graces , and , and conceal minute the courtesies utter cti want which of hear rob % , \ j t by selfishness the perthe fection Jtu ^ biuxx virtues vji of manner xiiuiiii of the ^ i . British We ¥ v \ + uv certainl character ^ i Lcwiiii y ^ are \ + not ± x \ j \ 0 prone yjx \ JXM . \^ to exaggerate V / Aaggwiaiw

      danger has , or had of losing , certain altogether virtues which , if indeed it , but seems we they to will us have not we not deny are in alread that great it y ceased No one to be can general deny enough that , during to be called e last national few years . , a tone of morality of decidedl those y has detestable French become in theories its prevalent origin and . It amongst sickl is the sentiments reduction young men to which a which system find is , their vicious exposition than the ceremonious in modern French intrigue novels of y the . days Infinitely of chivalry more , mystery 111 when cit 1 a knight and luuwi laborious had to go eti through iv quette uvivt before a tedious he could course hope of affected to

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      S , XM . \ J U >& lit VJ . yr MX ** W ** A & AW * -I > lr . * * j * none Of all is mo defo re rm odious ities than of hu the man Lothario nature of which the nineteenth man has century created , . , A creature without mind , without heart , whose very passions are e snarl masculat of impotent ed ; who malice meets or a solem sneer n of tru feeble th of incredulity religion with ; in a - , credulity born not of honest doubt following on anxious thought :

      and noble prehend earnest a nothing soul enquiry whose deep , but or hest the grand refuge , iration a heart of a is that mind to be can that mean feel can nothing without combeing sympathy , thoug , sometimes ht so . For g even the mind respect asp that ; for ca ? the mot soul believe which , we is feel the have nature plaything love with of ; but the tempestuous discarded for the animal passion vices of we the , born must lowest , a have man beast p , ity defiles s , we who may his is which vicious cons his would upon impulses be princi his till p le he , who has excuse got laboriously , but them which by simulates heart he cannot , whose lass the feel , passions love whose ; who is treachery friendshi grimacing immeasurable p , whose self is - a conceit contempt lucrative courage studied is and profession palsied before loathing fear , the whose ? , what looking And fidelity can thoug -g we h is ; feel to timid this but

      standard cfiT « 4 ni- / 4 of nf perfection norfo ^ finn few ft *\ xr ever ( xvre ± -r attain jaftPITl , . yet VPt it it is is a p T > icture ictUre of Of that that been With manl to which y vain the morality many reign and selfish of are which Victoria approaching is but fast there it disappearing held certainl nearer up before y and commenced . Society itself nearer a noble mi every a g reign ht , have pure day of . tion ideal . of Would character men , of then , which have it openly saw at proclaimed its head the their living infidelity illustrathen to the have marriage listened vow for , as one they moment do too to often the now compound ? Would of mincing women blasph making emy of , and your mean modern libertinism gallant , ? which Were constitutes young men the love then - ashamed of shame they ? Did ij they lh ^ then mvn think "" that

      asnameu 01 sname a as . s uaey arc are uuw now s x- »» . , «•»» ""* home the real with vice all was its sweet to blush and for solemn their duties own viciousness of respectful ? love Was , most ever treated , beautifu l of a childish all human fiction mysteries , as it — is th often e love now of husband ? Was that and wife now — ? ever If we derided have not as a degenerated tiresome and —if obsolete our standard fashion of , virtue as it is is years not lower ago— — if our our asp manliness irations less is not noble becoming than they enervated were twenty —our heartiness — not if if lost the fhf » its relations rations languishing strength of nf , father fa if ther into it is and and apath no longer son son y— . brother brother if a the bulwark word and and Friendshi sister sister against , husband husband misery p has ,

      and wifehave not lost much of their , sacredness , —then the inpourtray sidious answering look advance , , is this around but question of the that and fiction , corruption if let all of who real our , which love l own in their our we imag inmost have country ination attempted nature . and Before their love to what species is brave and noble , and let y , us all not be ashamed , to for tempt is declare but love for too that our ties apt love not , that under onl by restrain y our the gives words specious , and happ pure and for iness , guise duties by , our but of that liberalism actio demands demand ns . sacrifices The and respect free con - - , , dom enchain of us thoug in the ht , to worst involve of all slaveries in the whirl —the pool slavery of licence of Vice , and .

      The Question Of The Week.

      THE QUESTION OF THE WEEK .

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), April 25, 1868, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_25041868/page/1/