The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review

The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review: "the present order of things We must take men as they are the interests the inclinations by which they are now moved and not by uprooting but by giving them a new direction bring about a better state of things Let parties continue their feverish strifes working out blindly and unwittingly it may be a high and useful end let the merchant the mechanic the laborer keep to their callings effecting public good while intent only on private gains let the sacred privacy and purity of the family relation remain nay more let the inequalities of fortune remain the necessary result perhaps of a corresponding inequality of powers and more beneficial than any forced equality were it possible let them all remain but give us at least some modification some new adaptation of them which shall put an end to the cold isolation of man from man which shall make mutual dependence a bond of union instead of a chain of servitude which shall secure aid in misfortune not as a charity but as a right which in short shall make the freeman in law free also in social condition and shall relieve civil liberty from the harsh contrast in which it now stands with the"