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 elbow. The current of general conviction which had worked the Political Justice had force enough to turn the mill, if one may say so, even when the purpose was incongruous and the effect produced very different from the intention. Caleb Williams is a kind of literary curiosity—a monstrous hybrid between different species—which gains its interest by a fortunate confusion. But if any one should be prompted to push his study into other novels, I fear that he is destined to disappointment.