Seeking further evidence in reference to this important question, let him then turn to the “North British Review” for the current month and study the social sores of Britain.

For more than a century she has been sowing the wind, carrying, and in the direct ratio of their connection with her, poverty and slavery into important countries of the earth.  She is now only reaping the whirlwind.  When her literary men shall have begun to teach her people this—­when they shall have said to them that public immorality and private morality cannot co-exist—­when they shall have commenced to repudiate the idea that the end sanctifies the means—­then, but not till then, the time may, perhaps, have come for lecturing the world on the moral side of the question of International Copyright.  To this moment, so far as the writer’s memory serves him, no one of them has yet entered on the performance of this important work.