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police coming down on it whenever it appears), the _Lantern_ and the _White Lamp_, the _Snuffers_ followed the list of lights, and the whole category concluded in an _Egyptian Darkness_, to which most of them have descended. The other titles are not so well classified: there was a _Democratic Reasoner_, a _Shrieker_ (or _Shouter_), and the _Berlin Widemouth_, the _Barricade Journal_, the _Street Journal_, the _Cat's Music_, the _Red Cap_, the _Sansculottes_ (_Ohne-Hosen_), the _Tower of Fools_, are miscellaneous: there was a variety of devils--the _Travelling Devil_, the _Devil Untied_, the _Church Devil_, the _Revolutionary Devil_. Some of the titles were cant words, quite untranslatable, as _Kladderadatsch_ (the Berlin _Punch_, still existing), the _Klitsch-Klatsch_, and the _Pumpernickel_ (a kind of black bread); the three last were--_The Prussians Have Come_, the _General Wash_, and the _Political Ass_. In the provincial towns all the flying leaves were something for the people--_Volks-boten, Volks-freunde, Volks-zeitung_--in a list that would be too long to repeat. * * * * * TRUE PROGRESS.--The civilization of antiquity was the advancement of the few and the slavery of the many--in Greece 30,000 freemen and 300,000 slaves--and it passed away. True civilization must be measured by the progress, not of a class or nation, but of all men. God admits none to advance alone. Individuals in advance become martyrs--nations in advance the prey of the barbarian. Only as one family of man can we progress. But man must exist as an animal before he can exist as a man: his physical requirements must be satisfied before those of mind; and hitherto it has taken the whole time and energies of the many to provide for their physical wants. Such wants have spread mankind over the whole globe--the brute and the savage have disappeared before the superior race--the black blood of the torrid zone has been mixed with the white of the temperate, and a superior race, capable of living and laboring under a zenith sun, has been formed, and we seem to be preparing for a united movement onward. The elements have been pressed into our service, the powers of steam and electricity would appear boundless, and science has given man an almost unlimited control over nature. The trammels which despotisms have hitherto imposed on body and mind have been thrown off, and constitutional liberty has rapidly and widely sprea
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