Cirrus@Austlit

Epigraph: 'We want in editorial labors less of partizanship, less of petty squabbles about the worthless discussions of the day; we want more of the philosophy of politics, more of that grasping intelligence, which can send a reader's reflections from facts to principles. Our journals are, to what they ought to be, what a chronicle of the middle ages is to a philosophical history. The disjointed fragments of political intelligence ought to be connected by a sort of enlightened running commentary. There is talent enough embarked in some of these; but the talent too commonly expends itself upon subjects and in speculations which are of little interest beyond the present week.' - Dymond's Essays on Morality.