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CONTENTS.
Our Brazilian Trade and the Anti-Slavery Party
The Fallacy of Protection
Agriculture (No. 2.)
Court and Aristocracy
Music and Musicales
The Metropolis
The Provinces
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Foreign:
France
Spain
Austria and Italy
Turkey
Egypt
United States
Canada
Colonies and Emigration:
Emigration during the last Seventeen Years
New South Wales
Australia
Cape of Good Hope
New Zealand
Political
Correspondence and Answers to Inquiries
Postscript
Free Trade Movements:
Messrs Cobden and Bright at Oxford
Public Dinner to R. Walker, Esq.
Dr Bowring’s Visit to his Constituents
Anti-Corn-law Meeting at Hampstead
Mr Ewart and his Constituents
Miscellanies of Trade
Police
Accidents, Offences, and Occurrences
Sporting Intelligence
Agricultural Varieties:
The Best Home Markets
Curious Agricultural Experiment
Cultivation of Waste Lands
Our Library Table
Miscellanea
Commerce and Commercial Markets
Prices Current
Corn Markets
Smithfield Markets
Borough Hop Market
Liverpool Cotton Market
The Gazette
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
Advertisements

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OUR BRAZILIAN TRADE AND THE ANTI-SLAVERY PARTY.

Since the publication of our article on the Brazilian Treaty, we have received several letters from individuals who, agreeing with us entirely in the free-trade view of the question, nevertheless are at variance with us as to the commercial policy which we should pursue towards that country, in order to coerce them into our views regarding slavery. We are glad to feel called upon to express our views on this subject, to which we think full justice has not yet been done.

We must, however, in doing so, make a great distinction between the two classes of persons who are now found to be joined in an alliance against this application of free-trade principles; two classes who have always hitherto been so much opposed to each other, that it would have been very difficult ten years since to have conceived any possible combinations of circumstances that could have brought them to act in concert: we mean the West India interest, who so violently opposed every step of amelioration to the slave from first to last; and that body of truly great philanthropists who have been unceasing in their efforts to abolish slavery wherever and in whatever form it was to be found. To the latter alone we shall address our remarks.

As far as it can be collected, the argument relied upon by this party appears to be, that having once abolished slavery in our own dominions we ought to interdict the importation of articles produced by slave labour in other countries, in order to coerce them, for the sake of their trade with us, to follow our example.

We trust we shall be among the last who will ever be found advocating the continuance of slavery, or opposing any legitimate means for its extinction; but we feel well assured that those who have adopted the opinion quoted above, have little considered either the consequences or the tendencies of the policy they support. …

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Before Joseph Campbell became the world’s most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates “will be long and laborious,” Frazer warns readers, “but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs.” Chief among those customs–at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination–is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.

While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism–sheer cultural imperialism, really–that finds its most explicit form in Frazer’s rhetorical question: “If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?” (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that “primitive” races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that “a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural.” And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories–”that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual” (to quote Robert Graves’s summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) “are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs.” Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. –Ron Hogan

Nature One of the greatest books. — Review

Before Joseph Campbell became the world’s most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates “will be long and laborious,” Frazer warns readers, “but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs.” Chief among those customs–at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination–is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.

While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism–sheer cultural imperialism, really–that finds its most explicit form in Frazer’s rhetorical question: “If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?” (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that “primitive” races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that “a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural.” And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories–”that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual” (to quote Robert Graves’s summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) “are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs.” Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. –Ron Hogan

Nature One of the greatest books. — Review

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.