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George Cruikshank
by William Makepeace Thackeray

* Reprinted from the Westminster Review for June, 1840. (No 66.)
Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made
against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a
man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither
and thither upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling, shifting,
struggling to keep himself somewhat above water--fighting for
reputation, or more likely for bread, and ceaselessly occupied to-day
with plans for appeasing the eternal appetite of inevitable hunger
to-morrow--a man in such straits has hardly time to think of anything
but himself, and, as in a sinking ship, must make his own rush for the
boats, and fight, struggle, and trample for safety. In the midst of such a
combat as this, the "ingenious arts, which prevent the ferocity of the
manners, and act upon them as an emollient" (as the philosophic bard
remarks in the Latin Grammar) are likely to be jostled to death, and
then forgotten. The world will allow no such compromises between it
and that which does not belong to it--no two gods must we serve; but
(as one has seen in some old portraits) the horrible glazed eyes of
Necessity are always fixed upon you; fly away as you will, black Care
sits behind you, and with his ceaseless gloomy croaking drowns the

voice of all more cheerful companions. Happy he whose fortune has
placed him where there is calm and plenty, and who has the wisdom
not to give up his quiet in quest of visionary gain.
Here is, no doubt, the reason why a man, after the period of his
boyhood, or first youth, makes so few friends. Want and ambition (new
acquaintances which are introduced to him along with his beard) thrust
away all other society from him. Some old friends remain, it is true, but
these are become as a habit--a part of your selfishness; and, for new
ones, they are selfish as you are. Neither member of the new
partnership has the capital of affection and kindly feeling, or can even
afford the time that is requisite for the establishment of the new firm.
Damp and chill the shades of the prison-house begin to close round us,
and that "vision splendid" which has accompanied our steps in our
journey daily farther from the east, fades away and dies into the light of
common day.
And what