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We hear from Providence that the bears appear to be very thick in those parts." Vol. i, p. 78. "What book have you there, Ben?" inquired John Collins, some time before the newspaper enterprise was started. "Lord Shaftesbury's work. I have been looking into it for some time; and Anthony Collins' work, too," answered Benjamin.
Lord Shaftesbury had to confess he had no money he could give; then he suddenly remembered he had five pounds in the library: he fetched the bank note, which formed his nest egg, and presented it to her. One of Lord Shaftesbury's greatest works was the promotion of ragged schools.
Sunderland, Halifax, and Essex, on the other hand for Temple took less and less part in public affairs were not only steadily opposed to Shaftesbury's project, but saw themselves marked out for ruin in the event of its success.
He commenced by bringing Shaftesbury's Inquiry into Virtue and Merit to the notice of his countrymen; and then turned his sword, on the one hand, against the atheists, to refute whom, he thought, a single glance into the microscope was sufficient, and, on the other, against the traditional belief in a God of anger and revenge, who takes pleasure in bathing in the tears of mankind.
As to Shakspeare, so far from Lord Shaftesbury's censures arguing his deficient reputation, the very fact of his noticing him at all proves his enormous popularity; for upon system he noticed those only who ruled the public taste.
It was about this time, i.e., in the year 1839, that my mother, who had been led, by I forget what special circumstances, to take a great interest in the then hoped-for factory legislation, and in Lord Shaftesbury's efforts in that direction, determined to write a novel on the subject with the hope of doing something towards attracting the public mind to the question, and to visit Lancashire for the purpose of obtaining accurate information and local details.
The threatened storm bursts. History of Titus Oates and Dr. Tonge. A dark scheme concocted. The king is warned of danger. The narrative of a horrid plot laid before the treasurer. Forged letters. Titus Oates before the council. His blunders. A mysterious murder. Terror of the citizens. Lord Shaftesbury's schemes. Papists are banished from the capital. Catholic peers committed to the Tower.
And Lord Shaftesbury asked, "Whether any imperial ruler had ever preferred," as he said Canada had, "love to dominion, and reverence to power." Lord Shaftesbury's sentiments are, I believe, an echo of those of the "great England" party; but, I repeat, "little England" sold the shot and shell, nevertheless.
As a protest against the selfish, utilitarian view of Christianity which was utterly at variance with the spirit displayed and inculcated by Him 'who pleased not Himself, Lord Shaftesbury's work deserves the high tribute paid to it by its latest editor, 'as a monument to immutable morality and Christian philosophy which has survived many changes of opinion and revolutions of thought. But from another point of view we shall come to a very different conclusion.
Tate, who was in the secret of its authorship, talked of it to Dryden, and urged an extension of the poem. Were there not enough of Shaftesbury's brisk boys running at large who deserved to be gibbeted? Were there not enough Hebrew names in the two books of Samuel to name each as appropriately as those already nomenclatured?
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