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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... and their influence on the people is far more direct, continuous, and fruitful. Our peace in the future little depends on the dispersed population of those districts wherein the personal influence of the aristocracy is yet considerable; but it does most closely depend on those aggregations of stirring men over whom Dur commercial magnates preside. From these we have to dread the hurricanes, the earthquakes, and the eruptions. It is important in this day that the English lords should be wise and magnanimous; but, perhaps, it is still more important, that English masters should be considerate and winning. We are not much in danger of cruelty: we are greatly in danger of indifference. Few would do their men harm, would tamper with their rights, would enforce anything manifestly injurious. All would pay the men regularly, punctually, and in full--of course they would, just as they would oil the machinery, because if they did not, all would soon be at a stand. But the cases are many wherein the machinery is regularly oiled, the men regularly paid, and the master has just as much communication with the one as the other. He knows what the one does, and what the other does. If the one breaks a wheel, he sends for an engineer; if the other breaks a bone, he sends for a doctor. If the one is worn out, it is dismissed; if the other is worn out, it is dismissed. Both are very useful, and, perhaps, the master can tell you the name of both--of the machinery, always; of the man, sometimes. Ah! ye lords of cotton, wool, and silk, of linen, lace, and hose, ye smile, well pleased, when one alludes to the large number of men in your employment. You like us to know that you have " mope hands than any one in the town." HANDS AJSD HEAD. 167 Well, we must not...