The Dublin Review, Vol. 12
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Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 12: January April, 1869 Is it presumption to suggest that these epithets are somewhat inept, if not extravagant? Ability and wisdom in public affairs generally find a more lasting monument even than books. The thoughts of a sound thinker on the policy of a great state, who has the opportunity to be heard (and Mr. Senior had great opportunities), gradually translate themselves into laws and institutions. Mr. Senior made many suggestions for the good government of Ireland, of which not one - not even the occasional Convocation of the Imperial Parliament in Dublin, not even the abolition of the Lord Lieutenancy, not even the pensioning of the priests - was attempted in his own time, or can be reckoned as other than superannuated and impracticable now. English travellers, ever since the time of Giraldus Cambrensis, have been remarkable, according to the opinion of their own countrymen, for "the attractive research" and "keen observation" which they have devoted to the study of that island and its inhabitants. The English nation, to do it justice, has always been anxious to listen to any one who could give it an argument capable of being comprehended with complacency, for its occupation of a country which it is unable to understand, and which revolts unceasingly against its rule. Giraldus wrote before the age of reviews, but we have evidence little less valuable of his success with his contemporaries, who wished to understand offhand all about Ireland once for all. Giraldus said it was a country in which there was a talking wolf, a bearded woman, and a bull with a human head; that in remote parts of it, baptism was very irregularly administered; that its people had musical tastes and homicidal propensities, its very saints in heaven were vindictive, and its priests addicted in the evening hours to the worship of Bacchus, vino variisque potionibus - all obviously good and sufficient grounds for the conquest of the country. Ireland was conquered accordingly, and has been repeatedly more or less completely conquered since. The views of the more enlightened English of the present day take the direction of depopulation. Mr. Senior´s views differ in so far from those of Giraldus Cambrensis. He objects that the priests of the present day do not preach the Gospel according to Malthus; that the landlords as yet only imperfectly apprehend that their true mission on earth is to check the increase and multiplication of mankind, and to further the spread of civilization by cattle; and that the British Government and the British nation are bound to sustain the landlords in their efforts to "prevent the whole country from becoming a warren of yahoos." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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