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labourers’ dwellings. 
ance is always obstinate and difficult to be removed; but if the land- 
owner would encourage the education of his peasantry by forward¬ 
ing every measure for instituting education establishments for 
youth, such as those in Germany, his labours would be sure to meet 
with success and reward. The best means for extending information 
to grown-up persons is by establishing village libraries. These should 
be by no means free, as the poor have a singular prejudice against any 
thing that is given them for nothing; and if each member, therefore, 
even paid but a halfpenny or penny a week, it would make them 
feel more independent than if admitted gratuitously. 
In conclusion ; I may state that I have imperfectly run over what 
appears to me the means by which the melioration of the British 
peasantry may be effected ; and I again implore the wealthy to adopt 
some measures for the relief of their starving dependants. To those 
who have drank like milk the tears of the miserable and wretched— 
to those, who for love of wealth have hardened their hearts that neither 
grief nor distress can move them—to those who have shut their ears 
and hands to the petitions of the poor—I have nothing to say, they 
are past being moved,—and must be left to the rapacious desires of 
their own hearts, which will ultimately take vengeance upon them for 
the calamities they have inflicted on others. But to those who are 
open to reason and a sense of justice I would say, that the impor¬ 
tance of their trust is far more than the dignity of their station. If 
they expect justice to be done to their estates—if they expect a 
continuance of that labour discharged with fidelity, by which their 
dignity and grandeur are supported, they must give diligence its 
due reward, and secure the gratitude of their dependants by minister¬ 
ing to their wants: tyranny may create fear, but it never can command 
affection. 
The landlord who exercises much consideration in behalf of his 
peasantiy has no need to fear the incendiary; security will encircle 
his dwelling; and above all, he will be at peace with himself, by being- 
conscious of having acted wisely with those goods of which he has 
been appointed a distributor; and when the gnawings of the tyrant’s 
heart will torment and distract him, he who has acted the part of a 
feeling and natural father to his people, shall establish his soul in 
peace. 
London , February 1 6th, 1834. 
P. S.—In my paper on the Scarf, the sense of one passage is destroyed by misplacing the 
points. See Vol. 2, page 522, 23rd line from the bottom. 
“The mandibles opened and shut, as if gasping for breath. In order to retard the flight of 
the remaining spark of life so rapidly winging its way, I pushed a herring head towards them 
with a small cane See. **” 
It ought to read thus :— 
“The mandibles opened and shut, as if gasping for breath, in order to retard the flight of the 
remaining spark of life so rapidly winging its way. I pushed a herring head &e.” 
