Thus, however, has our first Practical Inference from the Clothes–Philosophy, that which respects Dandies, been sufficiently¹ drawn²; and we come now to the second, concerning Tailors. On this latter our opinion happily quite coincides with that of Teufelsdrockh himself, as expressed in the concluding page of his Volume, to whom, therefore, we willingly give place. Let him speak his own last words, in his own way:—

“Upwards of a century,” says he, “must elapse, and still the bleeding fight of Freedom be fought, whoso is noblest perishing in the van, and thrones be hurled³ on altars like Pelion on Ossa, and the Moloch of Iniquity⁴ have his victims, and the Michael of Justice his martyrs⁶, before Tailors can be admitted to their true prerogatives⁷ of manhood, and this last wound of suffering Humanity be closed.

“If aught in the history of the world’s blindness could surprise us, here might we indeed pause and wonder. An idea has gone abroad, and fixed⁸ itself down into a wide-spreading rooted error, that Tailors are a distinct species in Physiology⁹, not Men, but fractional Parts of a Man. Call any one a Schneider (Cutter, Tailor), is it not, in our dislocated, hoodwinked, and indeed delirious¹⁰ condition of Society, equivalent to defying his perpetual fellest enmity? The epithet¹¹ schneidermassig (tailor-like) betokens¹² an otherwise unapproachable degree of

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