INDEX TO VOLUME XVII. AMERICA in 1846.-The Past-The Future... A Vision of the Night: A Poem. By S. H. Whitman.. ers of Indian Affairs, transmitted with the President's Message, 1st Asdrubal's Wife. By W. H. Hosmer.. A Brief Review of the late occurrences in Poland. Page 57 116 333 465 474 Brazil Sketches of Residence and Travels in, &c. By D. P. Kidder, A.M 444 ..126 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays of Alexander H. Everett,.. Cromwell and his Times.-1st. Letters and Speeches of Oliver Crom- China and its Prospective Trade. .305 ..336 Etchings with a Chisel.-The Miraculous Picture-Do not be afraid of .382 ..118 English and French Intervention in the Rio de la Plata. By Hon. Caleb ..163, 480 Favorite, The. Translated from the German of Johanna Schopenhauer. ..353, 456 Game of North America, The; its Nomenclature, Habits, Haunts, and Horæ Sicilianæ. By Signor Salvatore Abbate E. Migliore.... ....17 .130, 187, 282 223 ..368 Independent Treasury, The.-1st. House Bill. 2d. Report of Senate ..323 Is it the Policy of England to Fight or Trade with the United States? By 421 James Nayler. By J. G. Whittier.... .193 Jackson. By J. R. Orton... .288 Knight in Armor, The. A Fragment from the Journal of an Officer. By Mrs. E. F. Ellet.. ..112 Lament for the Old Year. By W. H. C. Hosmer... Mystery, The. By R. S. S. Andros.. Page ..96 .30 Manufacture of Wool, Silk, Cotton, and Flax, Ancient and Modern.... ...40 .....78, 158, 240 Marginalia; embracing Critical Notices of Carlyle, Dr. Cheever, Mr. Man and the Earth. By Mary Orme. ..268 Mexico. By Hon. Caleb Cushing.. ..388 Progress in America; or, a Speech in Sonnets, on Great Britain and the Polish Revolution of 1830, The. By Major G. Tochman. Political Statistics.-Census of New-York, by Counties, and the New Providence. By Miss Mary Orme.. Apportionment. Political Statistics.-War Bill, and Vote thereon... .91 ..47 .141 .400 .479 ..273 Reflections on the "Balance of Power;" Rise, Progress and results; Songs of Labor, No. IV.; The Ship Builders. By J. G. Whittier. ..369 ..257 .456 The Reciprocal Influence of the Physical Sciences, and of Free Poli- .3 THE RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND OF FREE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS. The poor are condemned to a want of that leisure which is necessary for the improvement of the mind. They are the predestinated victims of ignorance and prejudice. All the powers they possess are engaged in the pursuit of miserable expedients to protract their existence. Whatever be the prejudice, the weakness, or the superstition of their age and country, they have scarcely any chance to escape from it. It is melancholy to reflect how few mo ments they can have of complaisance-of exultation-of honest pride, or of joy. Is there not a state of society practicable, in which leisure shall be made the inheritance of every one of its members ?"-GODWIN'S ENQUIRER. THE innumerable schemes which, from time to time, are making their appearance in this country for the improvement of its Social Condition, is about the most conspicuous feature of our civilization. Corporations are created; capital is invested; presses are established, and, we ought, perhaps, to add, mad-houses filled, in giving expression to this fertile enthusiasm. These reformers may be divided into the following classes, each of which behold, in their several devices, the most immediate instrumentality for emancipating society from sin and grief: First, the religious reformer, who looks to spiritual influences entirely for man's political and social regeneration. Second, the socialist, who fixes his hopes upon an entire re-organization of industry, and the emancipation of the cardinal passions. Third, the agrarian, who requires a forced and periodical equalization of the landed property of the country among all its inhabitants. Fourth, the political reformer, who relies upon the equalization of the duties and the rights of all, by the operation of laws which shall secure to every man as much freedom as may comport with the enjoyment of an equal freedom by all his fellow-citizens. All the various orders, sects and schools of American meliorists may be included under one or another of these denominations. We can't have labored thus long at this our post editorial, with however indifferent success, without having defined to which of the above classes we affect to belong. We are by no means unconscious of the obligations of our race to the manifold and substantial labors of the spiritualist and the socialist, and, so far as defining prevailing social deformities, to the agrarian. But we have no faith in the schemes of either of them for bringing out and setting in motion all the progressive tendencies of a nation. It is not our purpose, however, at present, to define the insufficiency of their several systems; first, because the criticism of others is a very imperfect mode of advancing one's own opinions; and, secondly, because we can hardly hope to detain the attention of our readers, even for the space necessary to explain,--as it is our wish and will be our effort to do-the grounds of our confidence in the efficacy of political agencies, to achieve that final re |