His Views and Principles
be against women and children. We have done all this, I say, and we crown our work by putting into our children's hands a book that reeks of Jingoism, Imperialism, and Patriotism; that "mafficks" on every other page, that sings the glories of all the ruffianly kings who bore rule in the Dark Ages, and never fails to applaud their most disreputable military adventures! And when to vices such as these we join the immeasurble contempt that the flunkey-soul of Shakespeare felt for the People, when we remember the outrageous and insulting manner in which the Democracy is treated in Coriolanus and Julius Cæsar; above all, when we read that most injurious and shameful attack on the great Cade in Henry VI. Part II., the measure of our just indignation brims over, and we Free Churchmen reluctantly but decisively announce to the world that Shakespeare must go. A few copies of the Works may possibly be allowed to be kept in the strong rooms of the County Council, and may be shewn to such scholars as can satisfy the official cus-
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