6d._ a week, a human family does live? Again, are not sanitary
regulations possible for a legislature? Baths, free air, a wholesome
temperature, ceilings twenty feet high, might be ordained by Act of
Parliament in all establishments licensed as mills. There are such
mills already extant--honour to the builders of them. The legislature
can say to others, "Go you and do likewise--better if you can."'

By no means a bad programme for 1843; and a good part of it has been
carried out, but with next to no aid from Carlyle.

The Radical party has struggled on as best it might, without the
author of 'Chartism' and 'The French Revolution'--

'They have marched prospering, not through his presence;
Songs have inspired them, not from his lyre;'

and it is no party spirit that leads one to regret the change of mind
which prevented the later public life of this great man, and now the
memory of it, from being enriched with something better than a five-pound
note for Governor Eyre.

But it could not be helped. What brought about the rupture was his
losing faith in the ultimate destiny of man upon earth. No more
terrible loss can be sustained. It is of both heart and hope. He fell
back upon heated visions of heaven-sent heroes, devoting their early
days for the most part to hoodwinking the people, and their latter
ones, more heroically, to shooting them.

But it is foolish to quarrel with results, and we may learn something
even from the later Carlyle. We lay down John Bright's Reform