12, 1855.
'I have at last earned the pleasure of writing to you by having settled troublesome matters of little moment, except locally; and I gladly take a wider range by sympathizing in your interests.

There is, besides, no responsibility--for me at least--in canvassing the merits of Russell or Palmerston, but much in deciding whether the "village politician" Jackson or Thompson shall be leader in the school or public-house.
'Has not the nation been brought to a conviction that the system should be broken up?
and is Lord Palmerston, who has used it so long and so cleverly, likely to promote that object?
'But, whatever obstacles there may be in state affairs, that general persuasion must modify other departments of action and knowledge.
"Unroasted coffee" will no longer be accepted under the official seal,--another reason for a new literary combination for distinct special objects, a review in which every separate article should be convergent.
If, instead of the problem to make a circle pass through three given points, it were required to find the centre from which to describe a circle through any three articles in the "Edinburgh" or "Westminster Review," who would accomplish it?
Much force is lost for want of this one-mindedness amongst the contributors.

It would not exclude variety or freedom in the unlimited discussion of means towards the ends unequivocally recognized.

If St.Paul had edited a review, he might have admitted Peter as well as Luke or Barnabas.

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