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seeds of virtue , artd to strengthen every inherent propensity to great and good actions . "It appears to be a false principle that any thing will do to fill up the ranks : a
small number of men have sometimes conquered thousands , from their superiority as men ; and experience justifies the supposition , that die strength of a nation depends more on the nature than on the number of its inhabitants . "
We shall only give one other short extract from the fortieth chapter— " On War . " < c It is , I believe , generally allowed , that frequent wars impoverish a country and vitiate its inhabitants . This principle is scarcely liable to any exception ; for though it may sometimes happen that a nation , after a succession of
wars , will , by a fortunate concurrence of circumstances , enjoy a great degree of opulence , increase rapidly in population , and even be characterized by qualities -which appear novel to it , yet the evils attached to warfare must , in a greater or less degree , have been previously incurred . The loss of soldiers in the British
armies in some campaigns , appears from high authority to have amounted to about one out of seventeen , besides those -who died in battle and of their wounds :
but the proportion of deaths among sea * - men is far greater . The Loss of lives , however , is not alone to be considered ; the distress and even ruin of many families , who are deprived of their chief supports , enormous taxes , popular disc oa-
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ten t , and consequent crimes , afe afttbnj * the heavy evils which , in every country ^ attend frequent wars . It therefore be * hoves every wise politician to consider ^ first , whether the objects of forei gn coo * quest be in themselves worthy of so
many important sacrifices ? Secondl y ^ whether the benefits expected from . them be not precarious ? and tbird ^ whether if secured they would make amends for the vast expenditure of blood and trea - sure which might attend the acquisition ? The wars in which Britain lias
been engaged during , the last century , are well known to the public , and from the general disapprobation to wKicfc many of them have given rise , it is evU dent that the objects for which they were commenced , cannot bear a retrospect . "
In concludiug this article we observe , that the author ihrougk her whole work goes upon the just principle that all p > wer is derived from the people * and that all government should be . directed . tor their good . She describes with
spirit and just indignation many of the abuses of governments * and points out with perspicuity and talent the evil consequences that must result from practices which she enumerates , and which ar « unquestionably a disgrace to liberal and enlightened nations .
Aut , II . An Essay on Future Punishment . By R . Wright . V 2 mo 8 < l . Eaton .
Like the rest of Mr . Wright ' s smaller publications , the present tract is divided and subdivided into chapters and sections . This method is certainly well adapted to convey clear and distinct ideas
wickedness cannot finally go unpunished , that nothing but sincere repentance and real reformation of heart and life can possibly jivqrt the threatened consequences of present misconduct . He then goes on to shew that the punish * ment of the wicked will not com *;
of the different parts ot a subject . In tlie first chapter , Mr . W . argues from the divine perfections , the immutable nature of good and evil , and the present tendencies of things , as well as from the positive declarations of scripture that
meiice till the resurrection ; . piy . gues against a local he ] l , an 4 maintains that the wicked will h& punished upon earth . - Jn jhe la ] U ; ttr part he gives a judicious sum-
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S 4 O Retiexc . —IVrighP * Essay on Future Punishment
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/38/
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