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houses, hospitals and private charities, but from that 
organized and efficient emigration, so long advocated by 
the seer Carlyle ? Only the crassest ignorance and the 
listlessness born of misery and want prevent the able- 
bodied pauper, the frozen-out mechanic, or the weary 
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and ill-clad, the over- worked and under-fed agricultural 
labourer, from quitting the scenes of his purgatory, and 
from finding, scattered over earth’s surface, spots where 
he may enjoy a comparative paradise, heightened by 
the memory of privations endured in the wretched hole 
which he pleases to call his home. But nostalgia is a 
more common disease than men suppose, and it affects 
