est Indies almost an Arcadia" when compared with many of the home
districts. Next, let him study in the "Spectator," now but a fortnight
old, the condition of the 630,000 wretched people inhabiting Eastern
London; and especially that of the 70,000 mainly dependent on ship and
engine building, "too poor to go afield for employment, too poor to
emigrate, too poor to do any thing but die," and wholly dependent on a
weekly allowance per house, of front twenty to forty cents and a loaf of
bread; that allowance, wretched as it is, to be obtained only at the cost
of "standing hours among crowds made brutal by misery and privation."
Further, let him read in the same journal its description of the almost
universal dishonesty which has resulted from a total repudiation of the
idea that international morality could exist; and then determine for
himself if, under a different system, Britain might not have made at home
a market for her authors that would far more than have compensated for
deprivation of that one they now so anxiously covet abroad.

Seeking further evidence in reference to this important question, let him
then turn to the "North British Review" for the current month and study
the social sores of Britain.

For more than a century she has been sowing the wind, carrying, and in the
direct ratio of their connection with her, poverty and slavery into
important countries of the earth. She is now only reaping the whirlwind.
When her literary men shall have begun to teach her people this--when
they shall have said to them that public immorality and private morality
cannot co-exist--when they shall have commenced to repudiate the idea
that the end sanctifies the means--then, _but not till then_, the time
may, perhaps, have come for lecturing the world on the moral side of the
question of International Copyright. To this moment, so far as the
writer's memory serves him, no one of them has yet entered on the
performance of this important work.

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