124 Josiah Wedgwood CHAP. 



does not consider that they have any feelings at all. I 

 have seen many instances of this, and may perhaps 

 some time or other find a mode of conveying to him a 

 lecture upon the proper treatment of our inferiors, and 

 to prove that our ' humble friends,' as some one beauti- 

 fully calls them, have like passions with ourselves, and 

 are capable of feeling pain or pleasure in the same 

 manner as their masters." 



After this amputation of his leg, Wedgwood had to 

 walk with the aid of crutches, for cork legs had not 

 been invented, and he had to wait for a proper firm 

 leg until his next visit to London. Some months after 

 the amputation, he wrote to Dr. Darwin : " My first 

 wooden leg was made by Mr. Addison, lay-figure maker 

 in Hanover Street, Longacre." But Wedgwood was so 

 active and spirited a fellow that he required a constant 

 succession of wooden legs. 



On the 14th of July 1768 he wrote to Bentley from 

 Burslem : " My London modeller has come, and we are, 

 sketching out some employment for him. I have acci- 

 dentally met with another artist who is like enough to 

 stick by me if you can send a good, sober, honest 

 account of him. He is a mathematical instrument 

 maker, a wooden leg maker, a caster of printer's types, 

 and, in short, a jack of all trades. He has been at 

 Liverpool about half a year, working with a mathe- 

 matical instrument maker near the Change. He has 

 also done some letters for Mr. Perry. His name is 

 Brown, and he wears a wooden leg. At present he is 



