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measures which may be judged likely to establish one , having the printing and circulating of such tracts as I have spoken of as its
sole object . I should think that a few gentlemen in London , might form them » clvcs into a committee for preparing and publishing tracts
from a halfpenny up to three-pence or four-pence , having scriptural or practical information ( free from all controversy ) as their sole aim . After preparing a small list of tracts with the prices at which
they might be published , they might circulate them with proposals for a subscription . Active individuals will doubtless be found in every tolerably large town who would take the trouble of making the object known in their neighbourhood , of collecting subscrip-
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< £ * - " *«/> * J // ft the Editor of the London ^ sir , December 28 , 1808 . The following paper was composed for one of the additional notes in the first edition * of " the Chemical Catechism / ' but being found to extend to a greater length than was at jfirst intended , it was laid by , as incompatible with the nature of that publication . Should you think it however deserving of a place in the Monthly Repository , it is very much at your service ; and if it should be the means of Collins ; the attention of a . ny of your readers to a subject oi considerable importance , and > Vhich they would not otherwise have been Jed to contemplate , 1
* A short abstract of this paper was afterwards printed in the third edition oi Ch . Cat . p . jio .
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20 Mr . Parhesj ot the indestructibility of Matter .
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tions , and of adopting such measures as might appear likely to extend the circulation of the tracts among the
poor-If such a society should be formed , 1 hope it will be a primary object with the committee to adopt measures for the Tracts being sold to the poor by the small
booksellers , hawkers , or stall-people . I have no doubt that the books which the poor bvy or borrow are more attentively and more read than those which are given to them .
With expressing ' my thanks lo \ ou for bringing forwards the subject , with my earnest hopes that measures will be adopted to accomplish the very desirable objectp I remain , Sir , Respectfully your ' s , L . C ,
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MR . PARKES ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY , OF MATTER ,
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Monthly Repository . shall I assure you , be abundantly gratified . With the best wishes for the success of your worjc 3 >** I arrij Sir , ^ V \ Your ' s , - &c . Y SAMUEL PARKES ,
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i The indestructibility of Matter , an < - - argument Jor the Resurrection . It is an acknowledged truth that the more we examine the works of nature , the more reason shall we have to admire the wisdom and beneficence of their Divine Author . But there is one feature in creation , which in my estimation , deserves a much higher attention than has hitherto Leen paid to it : 1 refer to the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1809, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1732/page/20/
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