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5JISGELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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its govejp ^ ent , aotpnly from W ; hat I anticipate as ^ eir future consequences , but from what they have produced alread y : I see nothing to fear for England from the destruction of the monarchy and priesthood of France ; and I see * much to be thanHuT
for in the destruction of . papal tyranny and superstition . There has been a dreadful scene of misfortune and of crime , hut good has , , through all times , been brought ou ' t of ' evil . I think I
see something that is rapidly advancing the world to a higher state of Civilization and happiness , by the destruction of systems which retarded both : the means have been , and will be , terrible ; but they have been , and will
continue to be , in the hand of Godr —I think I see the awful arm of Providence , noY stopping short here , but stretched . out to the destruction of the Mahometan tyranny and superstition also .. —I thirife I see the freedom of the
whole world , maturing through it ; and so far from the evils anticipated by many men , acting for the best , but groping in the dark , and funning against one another .
—I think I see future peace and happiness arising out of tne disoraer and Confusion that now exists , asliie sun emerges from the cloVids : nfif can V possibly conceive how
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Analysis of the Idqa of Pl $ q $ ure + * If pleasure be / not merely the result of a comparison of sensa * tiona v it is at * least ; undeniably heightened ! > by contrast .,. Wha ^ recast sot pleosant ; as / 1 bat which .. IJ- 'Pi - lA . unnri . t . ijri . ni . . - . n-i ' tsn ir . nii " 5 fc t 5 'WiWIfflW . **! ^ -imuii ^
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all this ruin v falling upon tyrannous and blasphemous establishments has the remotest bearing against the noble and e ' nifghteneU S 3 stetn ' of our beloved country . — - Ori the contrary , she has been the
day-star of the world , purifying he / self from age to ago , as the earliest light of heaven shone in upon herj and spreading with her trium p liant sails ^ . the influence of a reformed religion and a well-balanced
liberty throughout the " world . If England ? then , is only true to the principles of her own excellent cpnstitution , the revolt of other nations against their own systems cannot disturb her government . But what , after all , is my opinion ^ , or the judgment of the court , or
l * he collective judgment of all Human beings , upon the scenes now before us ? We are like a swarrrTof ants upon an ant-hill , looking only at the surface we stand on ; yet affecting to dispose of the universe , and to prescribe its course , when . we Cannot see an inch beyond the ,
little compass of our transient existence . I cannot , therefore , bring myself to comprehend how the author ' s ' opinion , /'" that Provi-r derice will bring , in the end , all the evils which afflict surrounding nations ^ to a happy anji gl ^> ndus cohsuiiirnation , can be tortured into k wish to subvert th p governmentof his country .
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has been preceded by tho pain of hunger , ? What breast so alive to the joys of seU ' -approbatiop , ^ 5 that which has been previously lacerated , bys the itin ^ s of rQmorsei , May not theij ( aU ^ h ^ . p ^ ins oi' the ^ I ^ »)? i » ' > V W ' tber pi < # * $ y
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Analyst * of thc f ^ ea Pleasure * 7 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/15/
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