Page:On the economy of machinery and manufactures - Babbage - 1846.djvu/367

Rh of which they disapprove; and that if once a respectable and well-supported Review were established, capable of competing, in payment to its contributors, with the wealthiest of its rivals, it would very soon be supplied with the best materials the country can produce. It may also be apprehended that such a combination of authors would be favourable to each other. There are two temptations to which an Editor of a review is commonly exposed: the first is, a tendency to consult too much, in the works he criticises, the interest of the proprietor of his review; the second, a similar inclination to consult the interests of his friends. The plan which has been proposed removes one of these temptations, but it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to destroy the other.