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February 16, 1858.

I will, please God, admit into the political department [of the Rambler] no writings of men who are the devoted followers of any single school, least of all the followers of a writer so dazzling, but so little to be trusted and less to be imitated, as Count de Maistre, for whom indeed I have the deepest respect; but it is no good reproducing ideas, and I will try to find men who think for themselves and are not slaves to tradition and authority. This leads me to speak of the new shareholder. I presume you will not allow direct influence to anybody but Meynell and ourselves, now that Ward is not a fourth. Unanimity and