The Reviewer Reviewed, in an Answer to the Edinburgh Review on 'British Taxation'. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1860 Excerpt: ... powerful would have been their rule on earth--how much happier, wiser, and better, would have been the whole human race If only justice and humanity had been more regarded, by more attention to the comforts and welfare of the people, how much greater would have been the portion of happiness to all, even in this present life of toil and trial If, instead of such costly preparations for their imprisonment, and benefit, in building gaols, reformatories, and workhouses, they had been left to enjoy the fruits of their own labour, and to participate a little more in the mental acquirements of those whose lot had been cast in more easy circumstances, how much misery and guilt might have been spared how many suffering and lost lives, perhaps souls, might have been saved As Mr. Helps has well said: --" If men and women in general would only show forth a little more of their real nature in tenderness and tolerance for their fellow-creatures, by a little more self-restraint and self-denial, and if they would continue this into ordinary life, how far would it go to make this world a heaven, or, at any rate, something very different from what it is." He is the greatest man who shows how this may be, for nothing is truly sublime but Moral Greatness, for nothing else can claim kindred with the Divine, and that alone is great. To bring these principles to a practical test, take a survey of the human governments throughout the world, and then examine the actual results. In what part of the world have these principles ever been carried out in practice? Where are the results? and, what are they? If these principles be sound and true (as all Christian countries, at least, admit), what other results, than those we see, could have been expected from the manifest disregard wit...