Date: 1857
There should be demands for explanation too which were reck oned frivolous and vexatious, and censured as such.  These, I should say, are the not needful explanations : and if my poor Se cretary is to be called out from his workshop to answer every one of these, — his workshop will become (what we at present see it, deservedly or not) little other than a pilloiy; the poor Secretary a kind of talking- machine , exposed to dead-cats and rotten-eggs; and the ' work' got out of him or of it, will, as heretofore, be very inconsiderable indeed!  — Alas, on this side also, important im provements are conceivable ; and will even, I imagine, get them whence we may, be found indispensable one day.