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Updated: May 12, 2025
Gentlemen, there is no right-minded or right-hearted man looking back upon the ruinous dissensions and bitter conflicts which have been the curse and bane of this country who will not reprobate any effort to revive and perpetuate them.
I guess he took it from his mother's people. Give him one drink of whiskey, and it stirred up all the mud that was in him. There's mud in every man, I s'pose; and there's nothing like liquor for bringing it to the surface. A gulp of fire-water changed Chris from an honest, right-hearted fellow to a crazy devil. This had set the lumbermen against him.
"During these contests," he said some years afterwards, "it was this which sustained the gallant band of Reformers who so long struggled for popular rights: that, abused as we might be, we had this consolation, that we could not go anywhere among our fellow-countrymen from one end of the country to the other in Tory constituencies as well as in Reform constituencies without the certainty of receiving from the honest, intelligent yeomanry of the country from the true, right-hearted, right-thinking people of Upper Canada, who came out to meet us the hearty grasp of the hand and the hearty greeting that amply rewarded the labour we had expended in their behalf.
So that while the drama of Victor Hugo, Dumas, and the enlightened classes, is profoundly immoral and absurd, the DRAMA of the common people is absurd, if you will, but good and right-hearted. I have made notes of one or two of these pieces, which all have good feeling and kindness in them, and which turn, as the reader will see, upon one or two favorite points of popular morality.
In an age when it was the normal social system of settling quarrels, he condemned duelling; and he said some very wise things things that might still be said on modern education. In economics he was as right-hearted as Ruskin and as wrong-headed. Carlyle, who was in so many respects an echo of him, found in a passage in his works a "dim anticipation" of his philosophy of clothes.
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