I have accomplished the liberty of the press in England, and oral discussion is now free. Nothing remains to be reformed but the ignorance and vices of the people, whose ignorance cannot be removed, while their bodies are starved and their church remains a theatre of idolatry and superstition.' These were the proud and wise words uttered in the last periodical edited by Richard Carlile. They are the history of his life--the eulogy of his career--and the witnesses or his political and religious penetration. Of Carlile's family, I can gather little beyond this, that his father had some reputation as an arithmetician. He published a collection of arithmetical, mathematical, and algebraical que…
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