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''Latter-Day Pamphlets'' was a series of "pamphlets" published by Thomas Carlyle in 1850,〔Carlyle, Thomas (1850). (''Latter-Day Pamphlets.'' ) London: Chapman & Hall.〕 in vehement denunciation of what he believed to be the political, social, and religious imbecilities and injustices of the period. The book, which at one point vindicated slavery, failed to gain the approval of the Victorian public, and is often seen as a negative turning point in Carlyle's career. ==Overview==
The best known of the essays in the collection is ''Hudson's Statue'', an attack on plans to erect a monument to the bankrupted financier George Hudson, known as the "railway king".〔Lambert, Richard Stanton (1934). ''The Railway King, 1800-1871''. London: G. Allen & Unwin ltd.〕 The essay expresses central theme of the book — the corrosive effects of populist politics and of a culture driven by greed.〔Cumming, Mark (2004). "Latter-Day Pamphlets." In: ''The Carlyle Encyclopedia''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, p. 271.〕 Carlyle also attacked the prison system,〔Seigel, Jules (1976). "Carlyle's Model Prison and Prisoners Identified," ''Victorian Periodicals Newsletter'' 9 (3), pp. 81–83.〕 which he believed to be too liberal, and democratic parliamentary government. The imaginary figure of "Bobus", a corrupt sausage-maker turned politician first introduced in ''Past and Present'', is used to epitomise the ways in which modern commercial culture saps the morality of society.
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