who would not be so good were they poorer, but the Irish in Ireland are
perhaps the poorest and at the same time the most pious people of whom
we read or hear. "Poverty makes man satirical, soberly, sadly, bitterly
satirical," says Friswell. "Men praise it," says Alexander Smith,
"AS THE AFRICAN WORSHIPS MUMBO JUMBO--
from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate it." "It oft
deprives a man of all spirit and virtue," says Ben Franklin; "it is hard
for an empty bag to stand upright."