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laterally as well as in front by large green glasses ; he had not dis- 

 covered that expression dwells as much about the region of the mouth 

 as about that of the eyes; and consequently deemed himself safe 

 while the latter were concealed, although the lips, naked and exposed 

 as they were, to so erudite a glance as that with which circumstances 

 endow a man of my experience, reveal, with the nicest accuracy, 

 what is going on within. I have always found that the deepest vil- 

 lains are, in apparently minor, but really most important points, 

 the greatest noodles : this it is, that fortunately for the public 

 hangs so many of them ; and some odd day it will hang our sleek 

 friend Gruel. 



When he entered the room his humility was so aggravated, that 

 an innocent spectator would humanely have wished that the fellow., 

 for his own sake, could have sunk through the floor. I, however, 

 not only saw, but by what dropped from Mrs. Garnet, knew that he 

 was a dead rascal, who, notwithstanding his apparent imbecility, 

 possessed steam-engine power. I therefore asked him to sit down 

 and take wine with me. He glode forward, and seemingly oppressed 

 by the consciousness of his own insignificance, dwindled into a 

 chair : on the edge of which an abrupt incident compels me to leave 

 him until the first of Marclufft t < 







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As the present system of society has advanced, the natural relations 

 of man to man have been broken up; they now recognize each other 

 as only so many several parts of the political machinery. The grasp- 

 ing game of exclusive property has annihilated social feeling, and the 

 cant of political economy is superseding even the cant of religion. 

 The fanatics of both are conspicuous for one and the same error the 

 neglect of the question of morals an important part of true polity, 

 whether civil or divine, and the essential base of human happiness. 

 The zealot is busy to make man fit for a future state ; the political 

 economist, in making the most of him for this. The one seizes on his 

 soul; the other on his body: between the two he is left without 

 voice or volition on his own behalf; he toils to produce that which 

 he never enjoys, and dies in fear of that which he has never ex- 

 amined. 



Neglect and indifference to mankind in the mass is the pervading 

 vice of our social arrangements. Those monstrous anomolies pre- 

 ferring the lesser number to the greater valuing production beyond 

 the producers seeking partial wealth instead of general happiness, 

 are such standard deformities of the body politic, that, like all the 

 malformed, we have grown into self-complacency, and continually 

 allow ourselves to be flattered on the subject of our political beauty. 

 Humanity has become a drug sacrificed, remorselessly sacrificed to 

 the production of wealth ; which is all in all, and the hinges of the 

 human machine are only oiled to enable it to work ; while its exer- 

 tions, be they attended with what extent of suffering they may, are 



