in such a position, as to become the natural leaders of our ablest rising youth. Our great seminaries of national learning have put little heart and soul into their intellect or into their religion; and, indeed, perhaps since the Restoration, no school, before the Puseyites, have even seemed to unite piety and erudition. Here is England's real deficiency; we want teachers whom we may esteem, venerate, and love. It is credible that such teachers cannot be reared, until ampler religious freedom is enjoyed in all our public institutions; and meanwhile, reproduction of dry morality, empty vaporing, or obsolete superstition, may be the only possible fruits of Academical theology. As we see not whence such a new school is to dawn upon us, and, by the genial warmth of its beams, thaw and fertilize our barren grounds, we rather expect that the quarrel must linger on, until it has fully appeared that the ecclesiastical organs are unable of themselves to terminate it. In this case, the State will be forced at last to interfere; and then will be a time of hope for both civil and religious freedom. ANIMAL MAGNETISM IN PRACTICE. Oh animal magnetism! What a very shocking schism Thou hast caused among people once united! Have of late in fury risen all, And, believe me, I grieve while I write it, Their courtesy punctilious Has now grown cross and bilious; By a whirlwind of opinions, Has been blown east, west, and southerly, And lost to our dominions. But I pray and beseech, That all of you and each, More especially the Braid and the Catlow, And, like mere callosities, Though ye swell, never heed this or that blow. And we neither know nor care, Half a farthing about what you please to call it ; 'Tis the real "Golden Goose," And we do not see the use In letting you dissect and maul it— Be't mine then to declare The how, the when, the where, These phenomena may benefit the species; Most in need of them-how far The permanent advantage reaches. A sneer or a stare, To say nothing of her tongue when she abuses. Now if young men but knew How to Mesmerise "a few," The honeymoon would never be o'er-clouded; A "susceptible" spouse Would preclude all chance of rows, And mastery in sleight of hand be shrouded. "Come here, my dear, And lend to me your ear, Or, perhaps, I should rather say your thumb; Nor with women, nor with men, Seat her nicely in her easy chair! With legs that cannot walk! You yourself may go in peace any where ; And, then! what a saving, When the paupers are so craving, Might be made in those burdensome poor rates! You could let every sinner Have a slap-up dinner, Twelve courses, and a proper change of plates, By inserting just a clause K In the town's bye-laws, * "That each alderman, before he goes to feast, "For a score or two of poor at least." Exerted on the many, by the few! And to watch with what a stare Is neither skilly, nor lobscouse, nor stew! And then, again, behold, What "clair voyance" may unfold, In which every mother's son of us may share Lo! the follies of the wise, The pretensions of the hypocrite lie bare! And the demagogue himself must own, As those of the prime minister, ; That he gives the world the shadow-keeps the bone. The arrogant, the vain, The mendacious, and the imbecile, must fall; The good, the wise, the pure, Would flourish and endure, With happiness and peace the lot of all. Or this theme will never end; We have done enough for fame, and for mankind; We'll not give it to them twice, But declare," Upon our conscience, they are blind!" We have it upon undoubted authority, that a girl who was magnetised at Ardwick, when placed in magnetic communication with the operator, said, that when he put a grape into his own mouth, she felt something like a marble in her's, and when he bit the grape, and cranched the stones, she remarked— "It was something sweet and gritty!" |