The Willenhall Magazine - Unknown Author

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863. Excerpt: ... THE WILLENHALL MAGAZINE. % Jfffo Max %btmi Pashs. By Thk EDITOR. Were it possible for an intelligent inhabitant of some land beyond the threshold of earth, to be suddenly bronght into one of ifhe busy centres of human life and action, he would certainly be perplexed and bewildered in the extreme, as he witnessed the unblushing deceptions, the countless cunning tricks and fetches and shifts, and the astounding absurdities and contrarieties of our every-day life. So many vile impositions, so many twistings and turnings, such crookedness of course, such darkness of purpose, such fair professions and foul practices, would meet his gaze, that he would be likely, with all haste, to return to his native clime, thinking surely that the law of the human race was a law of contradictions, and that the said race was a thoroughly mixed mass of knaves, fools, and madmen. We could not discover such gloom as this, in the scene witnessed by the imaginary visitant, because we all share, in a greater or less degree, the evils referred to, and our clearness of vision is thereby dulled. But we see enough. It may be a comfortable sort of philosophy for those who themselves feel little of the ill effects of this state of things, to look round upon the confused scene of suffering and wrong, and say, with poetical fatalism, "Everything that is, is well; or, "For nothing is that errs from law;" but such philosophers hug a cruel lie to their hearts. It may save some trouble of thought or deed to say "These suffer, but it is their lot to suffer. This one poor man scarce gets enough of 'the crumbs' to keep his soul in its shell, but, such is his destiny. That other is shamed and ruined by some conscienceless speculator's crime; well, 'nothing is that errs from law;' it was always int...