"He builds too low who builds beneath the skies."
But our limits forbid any more extracts from this friendly
manuscript at present.
Another eminent member of this circle is Mr. Charles Lane, for
many years manager of the London Mercantile Price Current; a man of a
fine intellectual nature, inspired and hallowed by a profounder
faith. Mr. Lane is the author of some pieces marked with his
initials, in the Monthly Magazine, and of some remarkable tracts.
Those which we have seen are, "The Old, the New-Old, and the New;"
"Tone in Speech;" some papers in a Journal of Health; and last and
best, a piece called "The Third Dispensation," prefixed by way of
preface to an English translation of Mme. Gatti de Gamond's
"Phalansterian," a French book of the Fourier School. In this Essay
Mr. Lane considers that History has exhibited two dispensations,
namely, _first_, the Family Union, or connexion by tribes, which soon
appeared to be a disunion or a dispersive principle; _second_, the
National Union. Both these, though better than the barbarism which
they displaced, are themselves barbarism, in contrast with the
_third_, or Universal Union.
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