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At Home And Abroad

PART II
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This matter should and must be looked to more conscientiously.
Dr.Combe, repelled by all this indifference to conscience and natural equity in the firm who had taken possession of his work, applied to others.

But here he found himself at once opposed by the invisible barrier that makes this sort of tyranny so strong and so pernicious.
"It was the understanding among the trade that they were not to interfere with one another; indeed, they could have no chance," &c., &c.

When at last he did get the work republished in another part of the country less favorable for his purposes, the bargain made as to the pecuniary part of the transaction was in various ways so evaded, that, up to this time, he has received no compensation from that widely-circulated work, except a lock of Spurzheim's hair!! I was pleased to hear the true view expressed by one of the Messrs.
Chambers.

These brothers have worked their way up to wealth and influence by daily labor and many steps.

One of them is more the business man, the other the literary curator of their Journal.


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