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314 against all intellectual and humane interests of the race. It is better that an "editor," without ability and calling, should go hungry, than that the minds of thousands, who would have been open to the influence of better teaching, should be mislead and corrupted.

All women, who are not acquainted with, or indifferent to, liberal thought, good taste, and noble tendencies, by completely banishing from their circles all those "intelligence papers that are not papers of intelligence," and ail so-called entertaining literature that requires nothing of the publisher but bad taste, a mean, mercenary spirit, and indiscriminate reprinting, ought to set themselves squarely against them, and replace them by radical journals, which combine a genuine will to serve minkindmankind [sic], with the ability to do so. What we need is to adhere strictly to the principles of universal human rights and keep them pure; to expose and assert truth fearlessly and unsparingly on all sides; to keep an open and unprejudiced mind, for the purpose of securing intellectual progress; to subject all questions and occurrences in public life to independent criticism; to wage relentless war against all baseness and corruption; and if we need additional intellectual entertainment, let it conform to a normal taste, possess real intellectual worth, and be free from illiberal or unworthy tendencies. But where do we find all this, where can we find it, except in outspoken radical papers, which are as independent of the rabble as of