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"The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II."

The _stupor_ of my fellow blockheads, for Centuries
back, presses too heavy upon that,--as upon many things, O
Heavens! People are about setting up some _Statue of Cromwell,_
at St. Ives, or elsewhere: the King-Hudson Statue is never yet
set up; and the King himself (as you may have heard) has been
_discovered_ swindling. I advise all men not to erect a statue
for Cromwell just now. Macaulay's _History_ is also out, running
through the fourth edition: did I tell you last time that I had
read it,--with wonder and amazement? Finally, it seems likely
Lord John Russell will shortly walk out (forever, it is hoped),
and Sir R. Peel come in; to make what effort is in him towards
delivering us from the _pedant_ method of treating Ireland. The
_beginning,_ as I think, of salvation (if he can prosper a
little) to England, and to all Europe as well. For they will all
have to learn that man does need government, and that an able-
bodied starving beggar is and remains (whatever Exeter Hall may
say to it) a _Slave_ destitute of a _Master;_ of which facts
England, and convulsed Europe, are fallen foundly ignorant in
these bad ages, and will plunge ever deeper till they rediscover
the same.


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