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of his household goods, but of equally dishonest practices? 

 And the annoyance of such things, the helpless indignation they 

 excite, the distrust, contempt, and hatred, are worse a thousand 

 times than the money loss. And these feelings of distrust, 

 contempt, and hatred, which come to " malice and all unchari- 

 tableness," become mutual, and extend to all classes of society, 

 until all sympathy is lost, and all feeling of human brotherhood 

 is destroyed. Employers and employed, traders and their 

 customers, masters and mistresses and their servants, are at war 

 with each other. It is a war of mutual distrust, which grows 

 to mutual hate. Employers are hard, grinding, and greedy. 

 Workmen and servants are sullen, cheating, faithless. The 

 rich live upon the labour of the poor; the poor lose no oppor- 

 tunity to retaliate upon the rich. 



And all this is the natural tendency of our social system; 

 and what we find of honesty, truth, fidelity, honour, charity, 

 and Christianity, comes from the actual superiority of human 

 nature to its demoralising conditions. It is the struggle for a 

 purer and higher life. Every man, however demoralised he 

 may be by the customs of society, however entangled in this 

 network of evils, has the ideal of a nobler life, and longs for its 

 reality. What men have the idea of, and the aspiration for, 

 can surely be accomplished. In all this, "attractions are pro- 

 portional to destinies." 



When labour and trade are alike honestly conducted, and 

 justice and fidelity enter into all the relations of life; when idle- 

 ness and uselessness become as socially disreputable as they 

 are wrong; when all things are well made, because all work is 

 well done, solidly, thoroughly, and upon honour, the saving of 

 labour, care, trouble, loss, and waste will be immense; and the 

 production of all the necessaries and useful ornaments of our 

 life, the good and the beautiful, will proportionally increase. 

 The social burthens, once well adjusted, will scarcely be felt as 

 burthensome the enjoyments of life, once equitably shared 



