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    that honest freedom of speech which , ever ought to obtain * and the species of indiscretion above censured . I shall take the liberty of quoting the passage : after having stated that " the Christian enquirer , acting under the influence of the love of

    truth * will not shrink from the investigation and admission of any opinions , merely because they will expose him to censure or reproach / ' &c . &c . the author thus proceeds . " In the communication of opinion the Christian teacher will be cautious ; in the dissemination of what calm deliberate investigation ha *

    led him to embrace as truth , lie will be open and firm , but he will also be temperate and prudent . In endeavouring to do all the good he can , he will endeavour to do as little harm as possible . If the communication of the casual hints which invests gation often suggests could be confined to those , on the on 6 hand , who would not be biassed in their reception of ah opinion

    by the influence of him who proposes it , or , on the other , to those who would be able to separate between th $ truths which he had previously adduced and the half-formed opinions of the day or the hour , no injury would result from the dissemina--tion of such opinions . But who can thus confine them ? and

    who does not see the baneful consequences which necessarily follow , in a greater or less degree , from the dissemination of opinions which * though harmless in the mind of the proposer , may strike at the root of all that is valuable in those who adopt them , or may oppose the admission of truth in those who re- * ject them */* I am Sir , Your sincere well-wisher , and Obedient servant , Dec . 20 > 1805 . A Constant Reader-

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    INQUIRY CONCERNING THE AUTHOR OF THE WHOLE DUTY OF MANi To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . SIR , Tour very liberal Prospectus emboldens me to send an

    enquiry to your Magazine , which will not I hope be deemed irrelevant to its design , concerning the Author of the Whole Duty of Man , whose works 1 am in the habit of reading with much pleasure , and whose name , if it be known , I am extremely desirous of possessing . Some one of your correspondents , or readers , can probably furnish me with the name of

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    The Whole Duty of Man * 9

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    VOL . I . C

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    * A Discourse addressed to the united Congregations of Protestant Dissenters at Exeter , by JLant Carpenter , printed but not pubBshcd .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/9/