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have also undergone a mighty change. The 

 simple rustic and artizan of former times 

 ere steam-engines were known, or steam- 

 presses introduced to scatter the seeds of 

 equivocal knowledge repeated from their 

 hearts the paternoster which they could not 

 read, and enjoyed the comfort of a full 

 meal ; while their descendants, the parish- 

 paid laborer, the sickly cotton-spinner, and 

 the weaver of flimsy calico, have their 

 physical wants compensated by a plentiful 

 banquet of mental entertainment; and who 

 with empty stomachs, the great sharpeners 

 of wit, store their minds with " useful know- 

 ledge" from the Republican, the Destructive, 

 the Gauntlet, and a host of penny manuals 

 of wisdom and science twopenny trash is 

 at a hundred per cent discount whose titles 



it might weary Lord ,* ore rotundo, to 



recount. 



* Let the reader fill up the blank with the name of 

 any Lord of great intellect and little feeling, who is fond 

 of spouting on the advantage of cultivating the mind, 



