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l ^ proaches are not to be made to speculations , but to the madness and tyranny of impeding these speculations , and denying to man the reason he possesses , S * 79 . - ^ f On the contrary , such speculations , however they
jjnay fall oqt in single cases , are unquestionably the fittest exercises of the human understanding in general , as long as the human heart is capable at the utmost only of loving virtue for the 5 ake of its eternally-beneficent qualities . S 80 . —For with this selfishness of the human heart , to be willing to exercise the understanding , too , on what concerns
only our bodily necessities , would rather blunt than sharpen it * It absolutely requires to be exercised on spiritual objects , in order to attain its full clearness , and bring forth that purity of the heart which makes us capable of loving virtue for its own
sake . S . 81 . —Or shall the human race never at tain this highest degree of clearness and purity ? S * 82—Never ? Let me not think this blasphemy : Thoo ^ most beneficent of beings ! thy education has its final end with the species not less than with the individual : he that is
educated is educated to be something . S . 83- —The flattering prospects which are presented to the youth , the honour and affluence held before him—what are they but means to qualify him to be a man , who when too these prospects of honour and affluence sink aw ay ^ is still able to perform his duty ?
S . 84 . —This is the object of human education , and . sHall not divine education do as much ? What art succeeds in effecting with the individual , shall not nature effect with the whole ? Blasphemy I Blasphemy ! S . 85 . —No : it will come , it will assuredly come—the period of completion , in which man , however his understanding feels
convinced of a continually better futurity , will still not be necessitated to draw motives of conduct from this futurity ; when he will do good , because it is good ; not because arbitrary rewards are set on it , which were formerly employed to fix and strengthen his volatile sight , to the recognition of internal and better rewards .
S ^ 86 . —It will assuredly come—the period of a new and eternal Gospel , which is even promised to us in the elementary books of the new covenant .
S . 87 . — -It is possible that some enthusiasts of the I 3 tti and 14 th Centuries had caught a beam of this new gospel * and erred only in announcing its breaking in as so near . S . 88 *—Perhaps their threefold age of the world was no * nere idJe whim , and they had surely no bad purposes when the /
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IFhe Education of the Hitman Race . 471
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/23/
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