Note 1094 — Chapter IV · : DOCTRINES THAT OWE THEIR INSPIRATION TO CHRISTIANITY

Especially in that celebrated passage: “It [Political Economy] sounds with Philosophico-Politice-Economic plummet the deep dark sea of troubles, and having taught us rightly what an infinite sea of troubles it is sums up with the practical inference and use of consolation that nothing whatever can be done in it by man, who has simply to sit still and look wistfully to ‘time and general laws,’ and thereupon without so much as recommending suicide coldly takes its leave of us.” (Chartism.)