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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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( too hastil y I fear ) before I could venture to comply with your request that it should be published , I cannot but look back as to the happiest and most honourable circumstance of my life , that I thought and acted with
Mr . Fox , through so considerable a part of his time , and that now , in my retirement from the world , ( for so I have considered it since my professional course has been closed for ever ) , I have had the opportunity of thus publicly expressing my veneration for liis memory ^ When I followed him
to the grave , I was unable from sorirow to support with decent firmness the high place which my station at that period assigned me in the mournful procession , and even now , when thus eng-aged in the review of his splendid and illustrious career , I cannot but feel the most affectionate and
painful regret :- * -seeki « g a kind of consolation with his numerous friends , from , his being in a manner stiH living
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. Or . Mvrell on the Connexion between Truth and Morality . fflackheath , Sir , May 5 thP 1815 . T OOKING , some time since , into JLJ the early numbers of the
Edinburgh Review , I saw with surprise , that in one of them ( for Jan . 1803 ) , it is unequivocally maintained , that the interests of truth and virtue may be at variance betwixt tltemselves ; that there are truths of which the
prevailing conviction would tend directly to the depravation of manners ; and consequently that there are errors of opinion from which morality derives necessary support . If this be fact , the fVieiwl of truth may be the enemy of his kind , and the
philosopher f » ay push his inquiries to the worst possible issue , when they are pursued with the greatest possible success 5—if , indeed , the discovery of troth is to be any longer considered a * a successful termination of
philosophical research . Under the article * ' Elements of the Philosophy of Mind * " &c . by Thomas Belsham , the ** actual existence" Of philosophical necessity is admitted , and the truth of the doctrine < £ materialism fe de-
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in the Representative of his Family Lord Holland ' s personal resemblance has strikingly increased as his age has been advancing to the period of Mr # Fox ' s meridian—in private life W g
find in him the same normlar mann ^ find in him the ^ same popular mann ers arising from the frankness and simplicity of his character—the like rare union of ardour and gentleness . ^ that singular cast of mind , stimulated as it were by a never-ceasing and
fervent interest in every possible subject connected tvith public spirit or private justice ; and in parliament we see him , like Fox , the honest advocate for universal but w ell-balanced liberty , and distinguished , like him , by a bold , manly , vigorous and impetuous
eloquence . I am , Sir , Your obedient Servant , To EBSKINE . Mr . J . Wright , Panton Square .
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nied , but the diffusion both of the false doctrine and of the true is reprobated , as in « very view unfavourable to morality . With the philosophical speculations the present inquiry is not immediately connected . The contested proposition which is now examined is simply this ; — that truth must be favourable to virtue . The
almost universal assent which thii principle has received , is accounted for it * that article by a reference to the professional habits and views ** ofthe first teachers of morals in om schools , and of the greater numkr of their successors . " In other words , the
maxim has been allowed because our first moralists were theologians . It cannot be denied that many siiwlieat the door of theologkal teachers-, some have been cottvicfted of pious frauds , for which they are entitled to the commendation of this reviewer ; others have perverted truth , and q && * part have done it infinite disservice by their unskilful or illiberal defence But it i » now alleged against -tjiem , fbr the first time , that they have done wrong by giving universality to the persuasion that truth must be feyourafcle to virtue , ftfen sfill retain no much of barbarous prejudice , and *"
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33 S Dr . Jtfordly on the Connexion between iTinifoamlMorality .
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/10/
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