New-York daily tribune., 1850-05-02
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
HINTS TOWARD REFORMS: * LECTURES 40
DRESSES AND OTHER WRITINGS; By HgRAcE GsEE-
LEY. q Vol pP ~ i1no) Harper bro'h~fs
The larger papers embodied IN this volume arc
seven Lectures, Commencement Address, and
two Essays, written st intervals through Che aAt
eight years-each under the impulse Of some pre-
sumed necessity Or urgent inctemeni--and 10 these
are appended t1eoiy brioicr essays, some Of tuem
written for Annual oilers for TIE Tribune. and
only two expressly for this volume. As criticism
Or CONNIE adat0n OF tie work on our part is out OF
the question we prefer as explanatory Of is pub
lcation, t. copy tie
PREFACE.
Carlyle, if rig.tly remember tells US OF a.
imousive Fronch;nan who, IN the very crisis Of the
great Revolution, when the freuzed public mind
was intent on nothing short Of the world regcna
ration and the due and ample ieedipg of the lullo
line as essential thereto rose in the National Con
ycution full to bursting with a. idea which he could
10 longer siihe and y0ci'erated: 4" Mr. President
move Tint all the knsves add dastards be arrest
ed THE very thing, you see, that the hole Pco-
pie were intent on, expressed in one very compact
sentence. Where pri.ons could be found To hold
the arrested, or jallors 70 guard then-much more,
provisions to subsist thcm-thc mover had never
stopped 20 calculate He saw clearly that the fun
damental evil parent aud fountain Ol all Others was
the impunlty allowed the favor manilestly shown,
20 Knavery and Cowardice aud he was hent on a
Raiica Reform. night good fellow hc was too
at heat, am sure, though not perhaps, - pract-
caliy sagacous so readily cognizant OF the roat ons
of means to ends, as he might have been A. lie
grew older, be doubtless became cooley -sngeT
more considerate more conservative yet one may
well doubt whether he rose above the moral
altitsde Of his single recorded inspiration.
This apprehcns on Of all the kusves aud dastsrls,
if Won but consider 10 one Of the chief ends Mans
existence and effort on earth. A very arluous and
tedious work you may well pronounce IT, especI
ally when you observe that they who should com
bine to do IT, including many Of those who taink
they arc doing it, with those who make show Of
doing ii in the hope OF imposing on their coiempo
raries if not on themselves are personally Of the
very class on whom the operation needs 10 be per
formed 1t were study TO sec the work really
effected, and note how many who at the outset
were Aourshng handouts and tn ing to fit them on
their neghbors wrists, holding up ponderous jail.
keys and calling out, This way, brother officers
here's where the cu Frts are 10 DO secured tll far
ther orders = would find themselves wearing the
rules and tenantng cells at the close, with eyes Of
blank amazennent and visages Of yard mass1re.
Not entirely novel spectacle would this be, and
yet deeply interesting and instructive
Yes, the arrest al all the kuayes and das ards -
or rather their thorough cure OF knsvery and COW
ardice-is & task given us 10 perform, and each
must strive 70 do his part OF II, even though with
-
from the vices be is sooring to eradicate. The
more evil be discerns or suspects IN himself the
harder shoald he labor for the general sboltion aud
extinction Of evil, beginning with bis o~n faults
bat not forgetting that sthers also deserve and It.
quire effort for their eradication. Perchance il ,he
general warfare against injustics, meanness aul
wrong the sincere soul finds the be 1t attanslIs 4,
cipline aud corrective for It's faults sad errors
Tho volume herewith presented is ID aiIly CON,
posed OF Lectures prompted By invi,a,o OH 70 al
dress Popular Lyocums and Yoong Mems A.socia.
tiOns, generally those OF the humber c.ssa ex x.atlg
in country villages and rural t0uuships Thesr
Lectures were written In the years from 1872 l.
ls4s inclusive, each IL haste to f1lh some engage
meni already made. for which preparation had been
delayed, under the pressure o. seeming uecetsi
ties, 10 the latest iDoGnoat Allowable. 4 "a .lifr
whose exsctiOns are seldom a,eTmitted i)T q dss
never for q longer perOt. aad vhose reQa.rclncrts
already excessive. secm perpc,Gtly O. eKpan1
and incresse NAV well rxrnss the disyAciiln o.
thought ard rapidity Of compost On which srca
ders inevisblc. At no time has II seemed yfac-
teablo 30 devote q uhO.s dsy. seldom iu.l hill
day. 10 the production q any of ~, essay ron
tanned in this volume. Sos 1n.ii nolths after the
last of them written did the ids. oi ca,ler.inz
and printing them 10 tnis shape ssFgest i,scf. anl
hurried perusal q 81 thHt has since been sisfn
thom. The LectrTe here entitled The Orgaalza-
ton o. Lstof hks bean rocsss Ia part 70 o.sf.fro
II to the existing state o iscts the Others .rr
printed % they ssrc delivered 5ons n them
are more tOFid n style than ny present. mod
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ciaIy-bas they we're is.thfal irsaSer4gta d. tts
mind whence they cmsnsted At tie fas The.
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