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SHELLEY ON POLITICS.

the reasoning powers, criticized the he says, the power of the Crown, history, exposed the past errors, by bot the power of the illustrating their causes and the conMonarchy is only the string which

rich! Since so many scraps of Shelley's nection, and anatomized the humour

have been published, nature of social man." And again, ties the robber's bundle. All this ** Immaturity' It is strange that his "Philosophical What would Swift and Bolingbroke we know to be true now, butfew knew View of Reform," written near the and Sidney and Locke and Monte it then and no one expressed it so end of his b'e and highly thought of squier, and even Rousseau, not to clearly as Shelley. On the National. by himself, should have remained in speak of political philosophers of our Debt and on paper currency he is no manuscript till now, Mr. Rolleston own age Godwin and Bentham tells us that it belonged to Lady have been but for Lord Bacon, and less clear; and what he says applies Shelley, who gave it to Mr Stopford Montaigne and Spinoza, and the to us also, who have juz emerged Brooke So it came into the posses- other great luminaries of the preced- from a great war and are suffering sisa of Mr-Rolleston, who is Mring epoch? A-reader in 1820 from unexpected consequences of it. Brooke's son-in-law, and who, in 26- might have cried?—

A man may write on a piece of cordance with the wish of Mr Brooke Shelley, let these old writers sleep i paper what he pleases; he may say kas now edited and pu lished it. And come back to our missing that he is worth a thousand when he Shelley, in a letter to Leigh Hunt, sheep..

is not worth a hundred pounds, If written in May, 1820, says: "It is But if such a reader had been dis- he can make others believe this, be boldly but temperately written, and, couraged by, this introduction from has credit for the sum to which his I think, readable it is intended for preceeding, he would have lost much name is attached." "And he proceeds: a kind of standard book for the through his impatience. Shelley, in "The existing Government of Eng- philosophical reformers."

many instances justifies his own land, in substituting a currency of There have been two views of claim for the post that he is a paper for one of gold, has no need Shelley's Brose-the view of Godwin prophet. In his account of the to depreciate the currency by alloy- and Matthew Arnold that it is better industrial age, then new, he anticiping the coin of the country; they than his poetry, which no one now is ates Ruskin and Morris

have merely fabricated pieces of likely to hold; and the view that it! Modern society is thus an engine paper on which they promise to pay is, all except the 'Defence of assumed to be for useful purposes, a certain sum.” The result is, as Poetry." mere vapouring. In fact, whose force is by a system of subtle Shelley points out, to lower the value Shelley was not a born prose writer, mechanism augmented to the highest of all kinds of real, not paper, pro- could not exercise all his powers in pitch, but which, instead of grinding perty, and to raise all prices; "to prose as he could in poetry; in prose, corn or raising water, acts against increase the labours of the poor and he writes not as himself, but rather itself and is perpetually wearing those luxuries of the rich which they like an

eighteenth-century philo away or breaking to pieces the wheels supply." Shelley saw the wholes sopher. His style must have seemed of which it is composed.

process clearly, as many now see the a little old-fashioned, even in 1820; Shelley could not present his ideas danger of the same process. If he is antithetical, measured, and with the effectiveness of a politician, others had shared his insight then, almost as much on his guard against | „but the ideas themselves were the history of England would have enthusiasm as Shaftesbury or Gib more practical, because more been far happier, and now we should bon, except in a few passages of true, than those of politicians not have a legacy of class suspicion. indignation. Yet the matter reveals then and'

and he saw and class war which is as great, a his great intelligence, the thought is clearly what the politicians saw danger to us as the war we have just of our own time; and, writing in cir- dimly or not at all. He was a looker won. There follows a passage on cumstances like our own, he alone of on who saw more of the game than profiteers which might have been his contemporaries says much what those who were playitig it; and he written to-day in different we should say now, though not as was more right than poets, (like | language ****... we should say it...

follows it.

BOW;

in books, or such stupid and distorted and inharmonious idealism as alone have the power to stir their torpid Imaginations.

Wordsworth, who had been too quick In the habits and lives of this new He betrays his inexperience in despairers because of the excesses aristocracy, created out of an increase political writing at the start. True of the French Revolution. Of the in public calamities and whose exis he aims at producing a standard book Revolutionists he says: "It may be teace must be determined by their for the philosophical reformers. but the good which they did. lives after termination, there is nothing to even they would have felt that the them; their ills are interred with qualify our disapprobation.

They intraduction has too much philosophy their bones"; and history has proved eat and drink and sleep, and, in the and too little politics; it is too long him right. Further, at that moment intervals of these things performed. and general for the matter that of reaction in France be foretells the with most vexations ceremony, and Revolution of 1830, expecting "the accompaniments, they cringe and lie. From the dissolution of the Ro-institution of a government in France They poison the literature of the age man Empire it begins), that vast which may bear the same relation to in which they live by requiring ekher and successful scheme for the en- the state of political knowledge exist the antitype of their own mediocrity slaving of the most civilized portioning at the present day as the Revo of mankind, to the epoch of the Intion under William III. bore to the French Revolution have succeeded a state of political knowledge existing series of schemes, on a smaller scale, at that period.” operating to the same effect. Names In his second chapter he turns to borrowed from the life and opiniors England, and points out, what few

Certainly things, and men, are of Jesus Christ were employed as Liberals even of his time saw, that better now than they were then; bat symbols of domination and impost the establishment of William II. on tendencies are the same and Shelley ure; and a system of liberty and the throne of England was a com- saw them and could express them equality for such was the system promise between liberty and despot with a clearness to which only now planted by that great Reformer was 8m, because Parliament had become can, justice be dane,, rerverted to support oppression, and remained uneqresentative."A When he comes to actual measures There follows a sketch of history, fourth class made its appearance in of Reform, Shelley shows his insight part of which reads like a ́prose ver- the nation, the umrepresented multi by beginning, not with questions of sion of the * Ode to Liberty," with a tude.". Then began “that despotism representation, but with the question Jiberal use of names in the manner of of the oligarchy of party which, of the National: Debf,, a question. BRİCİEVEL UNGET Fraduate, and will under colour of administerng the "wicz now; again, 13 Cyed more. writer's insistence on the Importance executive power lodged in the King, prening and equally ignored by of great writers in the history of represented in truth the interest of the politicians. Here are „words sa true mankind.” Lord Bacon, Spinosa, rich. The power which increased in now as when they were written Hobbes, Boyle, Montaigne regulated the eighteenth century was not, ... (Contiqued on Page 33

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