140 Josiah Wedgwood CHAP. 



journey through life, and prevent all benevolent over- 

 flowings for the good of their fellow-citizens. . . . 



"When the public are witnesses to our bestowing 

 so much pains and expense in the improvement of a 

 capital manufacture nay, in creating a new one and 

 that not for our particular emolument only, but that 

 we generously lay our works open to be imitated by 

 other artists and manufacturers for the good of the 

 community at large, this would certainly place us in a 

 very advantageous light in the public estimation." 



In another letter to Bentley, Wedgwood says : " A 

 German has called and says, ' They have some excellent 

 Fayence and Porcelain manufactures in Germany, but 

 the English forms and glazes are so much superior that 

 they sell before them all.' I have indeed rather too 

 much business upon my hands, especially now that you 

 have left me, for when we have been together some 

 time, I feel but like liolf myself when we are separated ; 

 but I am much comforted with the thought of having 

 you here for good and altogether. We shall then do 

 something to be talked of. ... Poor Ben [Byerley], I 

 hope he has repented and is forgiven by this time. 

 Love has very different effects upon different subjects ; 

 but all follies arising from that cause will meet with 

 every possible indulgence from you, who have the 

 justest and most elevated notions of that sublime 

 passion which leads us, even the strongest of us, 

 captives at its will." 



" I have just returned," he says, " from Etruria, where 



