...the community. Abuses of government, of the police, of the penal code, of charity, of poor laws, and corn laws, are laboriously explored. General education...that word. If we examine her reviews, in which much ON NATIONAL LITERATURE. 277 of the intellectual power of the nation is expended, we meet perpetually...

...the higher forms of literature. The noblest subjects of the intellect receive little attention. Vf в see an almost total indifference to intellectual and...examine her reviews, in which much of the intellectual power'of the nation is expended, we meet perpetually a jargon of criticism, which shows a singular...

...noblest subjects of the intellect receive little attention. We see an almost total indifference Jo intellectual and moral science. In England there is...the intellectual power of the nation is expended, we1 meet perpetually a jargon of criticism, which shows a singular want of great and general principles...

...the community. Abuses of government, of the police, of the penal code, of charity, of poor laws, and corn laws, are laboriously explored. General education...shows a singular want of great and general principles m estimating works of art. We have no ethical work of any living English writer to be compared with...

...stood on a low level in England at that time. William Ellery Channing spoke of this in 1823, saying: "In England there is a great want of philosophy in the true sense of the word. If we examine her reviews, in which much of the intellectual power of the nation is expended,...

...Examiner von 1830: „We fear that at the present moment English books want much which we need (...). In England there is a great want of philosophy in the true sense of the word (...), and although we have little respect for the rash generalizations of the hold and eloquent...

...Examiner von 1830: „We fear that at the present moment English books want much which we need (...). In England there is a great want of philosophy in the true sense of the word (...), and although we have little respect for the rash generalizations of the hold and eloquent...

.... We find little profound or fervid thinking expressed in the higher forms of its literature. .... We see an almost total indifference to intellectual...want of philosophy in the true sense of that word." The center of culture which had hitherto been in Philadelphia and afterwards in New York now shifted...