XV. 



'LANDLORD AND TENANT.' 



To people of that happily constituted mind in which 

 the hope and faith in the moral progress of their own 

 race, and the sanguine watching of its slow-creeping 

 evidences, furnish a continual, albeit a slender, ban- 

 quet, whose patient and far-reaching charity may be 

 truly said to " feed upon air, promise-crammed ;" it 

 must furnish an occasional, and not infrequent pang 

 of almost despondency to witness how slightly, how 

 remotely the best remarks of the best philosophers, 

 the most practical advice of the most practical mo- 

 ralists, does actually reach, touch, affect, enter into, 

 or flavour the reciprocal thoughts and actions of men 

 in the working-day routine of ' business' life. Busi- 

 ness is the word, business is the excuse, business is 

 the conventional and accepted basis for a code of 

 human action, as unlike and opposed to what is de- 



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