Human Physiology. 



are at the same time practical, resolute, and persevering in de- 

 manding and carrying out what they recognise as real measures 

 of reform. 



The burthens which oppress the labour of England labour 

 which creates all wealth and bears all burthens must be re- 

 moved. Justice demands that the toils and the pleasures of 

 life be more equally distributed. The national debt is a machine 

 which abstracts thirty millions of pounds a-year from the pro- 

 ducers of wealth, and gives it to the consumers. It is a con- 

 trivance by which some thousands of men and women live in 

 idleness on the labour of their neighbours. A considerable 

 portion of all the revenues of the country is a contribution 

 gathered from millions of the poor, to enable a few to live in 

 affluence and splendour. The taxes levied upon beer, spirits, 

 tobacco, tea, coffee, etc., go to pay exorbitant salaries, sine- 

 cures, pensions, profits to contractors, the needless cost of 

 diplomacy, and the huge waste of war and warlike prepara- 

 tions. And these wasteful expenditures of government are but 

 a small portion of the great waste of life. The vast sums ex- 

 pended in gluttony, in drink, in smoke, in the cruel and 

 demoralising sports of the upper classes, in the vagabondage, 

 prostitution, and crime of the lower, come out of labour, and 

 might be saved for the benefit of honest industry. Count the 

 millions paid in exorbitant rents, in squandered rates, in the 

 profits of banking and insurance, in the revenues drawn from 

 interest and usury, and the needless and unjust profits of retail 

 trade, and we shall have some idea of the burthens now unjustly 

 laid upon those who work. 



An educated people, as the English will soon be, even to the 

 poorest, will see all this injustice, and will demand, and finally 

 command, that it shall cease. There is no solid foundation for 

 any government or any society but in right, in honesty, in equity. 

 Every one can see and feel that the existing social system is 

 wrong a contradiction of religion and an outrage to humanity. 



