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'Perfumes, arranged in a peculiar fashion, stand upon a smaller 'table of mother-of-pearl: opposite to these are placed the appur'tenances of Lavation richly wrought in frosted silver. A Ward 'robe of Buhl is on the left; the doors of which being partly 'open discover a profusion of Clothes; Shoes of a singularly smal 'size monopolise the lower shelves. Fronting the wardrobe a 'door ajar gives some slight glimpse of a Bath-room. Folding'doors in the back-ground.-Enter the Author," our Theogonist "in person, "obsequiously preceded by a French Valet, in white 'silk Jacket and cambric Apron."

'Such are the two Sects which, at this moment, divide the 'more unsettled portion of the British People; and agitate that ever-vexed country. To the eye of the political Seer, their mu 'tual relation, pregnant with the elements of discord and hostil 'ity, is far from consoling. These two principles of Dandiaca Self-worship or Demon-worship, and Poor-Slavish or Drudgica, 'Earth-worship, or whatever that same Drudgism may be, do a 'yet indeed manifest themselves under distant and nowise con'siderable shapes: nevertheless, in their roots and subterranean 'ramifications, they extend through the entire structure of Soci'ety, and work unweariedly in the secret depths of English na 'tional Existence; striving to separate and isolate it into tw 'contradictory, uncommunicating masses.

'In numbers, and even individual strength, the Poor-Slaves or 'Drudges, it would seem, are hourly increasing. The Dandiacal 'again, is by nature no proselytising Sect; but it boasts of great 'hereditary resources, and is strong by union; whereas the Drudges, split into parties, have as yet no rallying-point; or at 'best, only co-operate by means of partial secret affiliations. If 'indeed, there were to arise a Communion of Drudges, as there is 'already a Communion of Saints, what strangest effects would 'follow therefrom! Dandyism as yet affects to look down on 'Drudgism: but perhaps the hour of trial, when it will be prac 'tically seen which ought to look down, and which up, is not so 'distant.

To me it seems probable that the two Sects will one day part 'England between them; each recruiting itself from the inter

'mediate ranks, till there be none left to enlist on either side. 'Those Dandiacal Manicheans, with the host of Dandyising 'Christians, will form one body: the Drudges, gathering round 'them whosoever is Drudgical, be he Christian or Infidel Pagan ; 'sweeping up likewise all manner of Utilitarians, Radicals, re'fractory Potwalloppers, and so forth, into their general mass, 'will form another. I could liken Dandyism and Drudgism to 'two bottomless boiling Whirlpools that had broken out on oppo'site quarters of the firm land: as yet they appear only disquiFeted, foolishly bubbling wells, which man's art might cover in; 'yet mark them, their diameter is daily widening; they are hol'low Cones that boil up from the infinite Deep, over which your 'firm land is but a thin crust or rind! Thus daily is the inter'mediate land crumbling in, daily the empire of the two Buchan'Bullers extending; till now there is but a foot-plank, a mere 'film of Land between them; this too is washed away; and then —we have the true Hell of Waters, and Noah's Deluge is out' deluged !

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'Or better, I might call them two boundless, and indeed unex'ampled Electric Machines (turned by the "Machinery of Soci'ety,"), with batteries of opposite quality; Drudgism the Nega'tive, Dandyism the Positive: one attracts hourly towards it and 'appropriates all the Positive Electricity of the Nation (namely, 'the Money thereof); the other is equally busy with the Negative (that is to say the Hunger), which is equally potent. Hitherto 'you see only partial transient sparkles and sputters; but wait a เ little, till the entire nation is in an electric state; till your whole 'vital Electricity, no longer healthfully Neutral, is cut into two 'isolated portions of Positive and Negative (of Money and of Hunger); and stands there bottled up in two World-Batteries! The stirring of a child's finger brings the two together; and then-What then? The Earth is but shivered into impalpable 'smoke by that Doom's-thunderpeal; the Sun misses one of his 'Planets in Space, and thenceforth there are no eclipses of the 'Moon. Or better still, I might liken'

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Oh! enough, enough of likenings and similitudes; in excess of which, truly, it is hard to say whether Teufelsdröckh or ourselves sin the more.

We have often blamed him for a habit of wire-drawing and over-refining; from of old we have been familiar with his tendency to Mysticism and Religiosity, whereby in every thing he was still scenting out Religion: but never perhaps did these amaurosis-suffusions so cloud and distort his otherwise most piercing vision, as in this of the Dandiacal Body! Or was there something of intended satire; is the Professor and Seer not quite the blinkard he affects to be? Of an ordinary mortal we should have decisively answered in the affirmative; but with a Teufelsdröckh there ever hovers some shade of doubt. In the meanwhile, if satire were actually intended, the case is little better. There are not wanting men who will answer: Does your Professor take us for simpletons? His irony has overshot itself; we see through it, and perhaps through him.

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CHAPTER XI.

TAILORS.

THUS, however, has our first Practical Inference from the Clothes-Philosophy, that which respects Dandies, been sufficiently drawn; and we come now to the second, concerning Tailors. On this latter our opinion happily quite coincides with that of Teufelsdröckh himself, as expressed in the concluding page of his Volume; to whom therefore we willingly give place. Let him speak his own last words, in his own way:

Upwards of a century,' says he, 'must elapse, and still the 'bleeding fight of Freedom be fought, whoso is noblest perishing 'in the van, and thrones be hurled on altars like Pelion on Ossa, 'and the Moloch of Iniquity have his victims, and the Michael of 'Justice his martyrs, before Tailors can be admitted to their true 'prerogatives of manhood, and this last wound of suffering Hu'manity be closed.

'If aught in the history of the world's blindness could surprise 'us, here might we indeed pause and wonder. An idea has gone 'abroad, and fixed itself down into a wide-spreading rooted error, 'that Tailors are a distinct species in Physiology, not Men, but 'but fractional Parts of a Man. Call any one a Schneider (Cut. 'ter, Tailor), is it not, in our dislocated, hoodwinked, and indeed 'delirious condition of Society, equivalent to defying his per'petual fellest enmity? The epithet Schneidermässig (Tailor-like) 'betokens an otherwise unapproachable degree of pusillanimity: 'we introduce a Tailor's-Melancholy, more opprobrious than any 'Leprosy, into our Books of Medicine; and fable I know not 'what of his generating it by living on Cabbage. Why should I 'speak of Hans Sachs (himself a Shoemaker, or kind of Leather'Tailor), with his Schneider mit dem Panier? Why of Shak

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'speare, in his Taming of the Shrew, and elsewhere? 'stand on record that the English Queen Elizabeth, receiving a 'deputation of Eighteen Tailors, addressed them with a "Good 'morning, gentlemen both!" Did not the same virago boast that 'she had a Cavalry Regiment, whereof neither horse nor man 'could be injured: her Regiment, namely, of Tailors on Mares? 'Thus everywhere is the falsehood taken for granted, and acted 'on as an indisputable fact.

'Nevertheless, need I put the question to any Physiologist, 'whether it is disputable or not? Seems it not at least presuma'ble, that, under his Clothes, the Tailor has bones, and viscera, 'and other muscles than the sartorius? Which function of man'hood is the Tailor not conjectured to perform? Can he not 'arrest for debt? Is he not in most countries a tax-paying 'animal?

'To no reader of this Volume can it be doubtful which convic. 'tion is mine. Nay, if the fruit of these long vigils, and almost 'preternatural Inquiries is not to perish utterly, the world will have approximated towards a higher Truth; and the doctrine, 'which Swift, with the keen forecast of genius, dimly anticipated, 'will stand revealed in clear light: that the Tailor is not only a 'Man, but something of a Creator or Divinity. Of Franklin it 6 was said, that "he snatched the Thunder from Heaven and the 'Sceptre from Kings:" but which is greater, I would ask, he that 'lends, or he that snatches? For, looking away from individual cases, and how a Man is by the Tailor new-created into a Noble'man, and clothed not only with Wool but with Dignity and a 'Mystic Dominion,-is not the fair fabric of Society itself, with 'all its royal mantles and pontifical stoles, whereby, from naked 'ness and dismemberment, we are organised into Polities, int 'nations, and a whole co-operating Mankind, the creation, as ha 'here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?'What too are all Poets, and moral Teachers, but a species of 'Metaphorical Tailors? Touching which high Guild the great'est living Guild-brother has triumphantly asked us: Nay, it 'thou wilt have it, who but the Poet first made Gods for men 'brought them down to us; and raised us up to them?"

And this is he, whom sitting downcast, on the hard basis of

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