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ward form of the abstract truths which could not well be passed over , in allegories and instructive tales of events which ak
related as having really taken place ; such , for instance ^ as the creation , under the image of the successive days ; the origin of moral evil , under the relation of the forbidden fruit ; the origin of several languages , in the history of the tower of Babel , &c .
S . ' 49 . —2 . The style ; sometimes simple and plain sometimes poetical ^ altogether full of tautologies , which exercise the acuteness by sometimes appearing to say something else and still saying the same , and sometimes seeming to say in the same manner what has or may seem to have a very different meaning S . 50 . And you have all the good qualities of an elementary bookj as well for children as for a child-like people . S . 51 . But each elementary book is only for a certain age ; and it is pernicious to detain too long at this" stage the child who is grown above it ; for in order to render this but in soipe degree useful , more must be laid in than really lies there , and
more put on it than it can carry . The allusions and intimations will necessarily be too much sought , the allegories foa exactly explained , and the words too strongly pressed into the service . This gives the child a narrow , trifling , perverse , and quibbling understanding : it makes him superstitious , and attached to mysteries , and inspires him wk £ i contempt for what Is easy and intelligible . [ To be concluded hi our next . ]
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PROPOSAL OF A MONUMENT TO MR . LOCKE * To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , I perfectly agree with yotir correspondent who signs himself cc A Disciple of Locke , " that " the sooner a subscription is set on foot for repairing the monument of Locke , the better / ' and I agree too with him that if a few respectable gentlemen in London , avowed friends of civil and religious liberty , would undertake to receive subscriptions for this laudable purpose , they ¦ Aft A
»• * « « — .. would assuredly be supported . Byway , therefore , of contributing my mite towards setting this interesting plan on foot , I hereby promise upon my honour to remit to you five guineas for the purpose , as soon as I see upon the blue cover of y our excellent Repository , the names of any well-known respectable gentlemen who have offered their services to conduct and
execute ^ the design . ( ^ Your's , Another Disciple of Locke . Runny Mead , July 9 > 1806 ^
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420 Mr . Locke ' s Monument . & —
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/28/
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