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reason of cultured men by the passion, folly, and 

 credulity of the uncultured. However, perhaps it is 

 all right. Perhaps we want a little moderate anarchy 

 to give us a lesson. To be sure there is a lesson on 

 the other side of the Atlantic. In the disunited 

 States, the wise, the civilised, and the cultivated, 

 are shut out from all part in politics, and the 

 consequence is just what one would expect. How 

 the revolution that is now going- on there will end no 

 one can say. Probably the disunited ma} T become 

 for a time united again, and all things gradually 

 settled. But probably on the other hand, we shall 

 be hearing some day of the assassination of Presi- 

 dent Johnson j at least he says so himself. Still 

 America is hardly a lesson for us, for the circum- 

 stances are so different. The country is so vast that 

 there is room for every body, wise and foolish, 

 Mormons, Shakers, Philosophers, and Rowdies; 

 therefore, little government is wanted. Birds of a 

 feather flock together without incommoding the 

 community. The Mormons at the Salt Lake, the 

 Shakers in some favourable spot for shaking, the 

 Philosophers at Boston, where, they can transcen- 

 dentalise, with no one to disturb them; and the 

 Rowdies in the far West, where they can swear and 

 gamble, and bully, and murder in peace and 

 quietness. 



Ecclesiasticus says " The carpenter laboureth 

 " day and night, the smith worketh at the anvil, the 

 " potter fashioneth the clay. All these trust to 



