Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430
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A VOICE FROM THE DIGGINGS.
The voices that have come from the diggings in California andAustralia have hitherto been so loud and so many, that they haveserved only to confuse. We have the image before our fancy of a vastcrowd of human beings hastening over seas and deserts towards certaingeographical points, where they meet, struggle, fix. We see thempicking up lumps of gold from the surface, or digging them out of theearth, or collecting the glittering dust by sifting and washing; andthen we h...ear of vast torrents of the precious metal finding their wayinto Europe, threatening to swamp us all with absolute wealth, andconfound and travesty the whole monetary transactions of the world. What we don't see, is the gold itself. We should like, if it were onlyout of curiosity, to feel a handful of it in our pocket: but we gropein vain. A sovereign costs twenty shillings, as before; and twentyshillings are as hard to come at as ever. Nevertheless, we believe inthe unseen presence of that slave-genius, who lends himself, with asickly smile, to the service of mankind, and buys when we think he issold!
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A VOICE FROM THE DIGGINGS.
The voices that have come from the diggings in California andAustralia have hitherto been so loud and so many, that they haveserved only to confuse. We have the image before our fancy of a vastcrowd of human beings hastening over seas and deserts towards certaingeographical points, where they meet, struggle, fix. We see thempicking up lumps of gold from the surface, or digging them out of theearth, or collecting the glittering dust by sifting and washing; andthen we h...ear of vast torrents of the precious metal finding their wayinto Europe, threatening to swamp us all with absolute wealth, andconfound and travesty the whole monetary transactions of the world. What we don't see, is the gold itself. We should like, if it were onlyout of curiosity, to feel a handful of it in our pocket: but we gropein vain. A sovereign costs twenty shillings, as before; and twentyshillings are as hard to come at as ever. Nevertheless, we believe inthe unseen presence of that slave-genius, who lends himself, with asickly smile, to the service of mankind, and buys when we think he issold!
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