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see him, a little, cold man, with a tremulous voice, who talks 

 about the weather as if he were upon oath, but who can 

 lift up his testimony against any unwarrantable statement. 

 Taylor junr. and Maclennan were talking about associa- 

 tions of workmen, Christian socialism, and so forth. T. 

 junr. approved of the system where each workman has a 

 share in the firm. M. liked one master better than many. 



T. senr. described the inducement to hard work among 

 engineers at Manchester; the reward is not profit, but 

 situation. 



There are advantages in subordination, besides good 

 direction, for it supplies an end to each man, external to 

 himself. Activity requires Objectivity. Do you ever read 

 books written by women about women ? I mean fictitious 

 tales, illustrating Moral Anatomy, by disclosing all thoughts, 

 motives, and secret sins, as if the authoress were a perjured 

 confessor. There you find all the good thinking about 

 themselves, and plotting self-improvement from a sincere 

 regard to their own interest, while the bad are- most dis- 

 interestedly plotting against or for others, as the case may 

 be ; but all are caged in and compelled to criticise one 

 another till nothing is left, and you exclaim : 



" Madam ! if I know your sex, 

 By the fashion of your bones." 



No wonder people get hypochondriac if their souls are made 

 to go through manoeuvres before a mirror. Objectivity 

 alone is favourable to the free circulation of the soul. But 

 let the Object be real and not an Image of the mind's own 

 creating, for Idolatry is Subjectivity with respect to gods. 

 Let a man feel that he is wide awake, that he has something 

 to do, which he has authority, power, and will to dp, and is 

 doing ; but let him not cherish a consciousness of these 

 things as if he had them at his command, but receive them 

 thankfully and use them strenuously, and exchange them 

 freely for other objects. He has then a happiness which 

 may be increased in degree, but cannot be altered in 

 kind. 



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