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check on the cultivation of waste lands in particular ? And so long as this system continues , to say that we give proper encouragement to agricultural improvements I consider as an insult to plain common sense , *
It would be an easy matter to carry this argument to greater length and to illustrate it by many examples , but to every reflecting mind it is so obvious that 1 will not lengthen this essay by any farther remarks , but proceed to my last proposition , which was to consider the effects of the tithe
system in a political point of view , or rather to make some observations on the general effect which the present laws and regulations must naturally Froduce on the minds of the people , have already proved that the collection of tithes , particularly from the
lower orders of the people , has a most baneful effect on their religion and morals ; and I believe no maxim is more generally admitted than that the strength and stability of every kingdom depend on the morals of the people and their attachment to the
government . But how is it possible for pure morality to be maintained amongst a people whose minds are almost constantly in a state of irritation against those appointed to be their instructors ? I must likewise observe , that the united affections or
attachment of a people can only be maintained from a thorough conviction that their government or governors are constantly acting towards them with the tender care and solicitude of a parent . I am well aware that circumstances sometimes occur when
the people will make great exertions and submit to tnanv sacrifices , even at the very time that they feel much oppression from their government ; this is sometimes produced from an immediate sense of some impending danger , or from that innate love of their
country which is happily impressed ou the minds of the people ; but all these will only be of a temporary nature .
* I think it is liere necessary to remark , that , if we consider the check which the tithe system has on the improvements of waste lands , and add to this the enormous expense of obtaining an act of parliament for inclosures , 1 really think any impartial person will say , that in place of giving" encouragement to cultivate waste lands we hare laid an embargo on every exertion of the kind .
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When the seeds of discontent are sown unless the cause is completely removed * they will continue to grow and increase in strength till some dreadful convulsion produce a change , if not always a cure . For the truth of the above observations I can appeal to the united
voice of history down to our present most eventful times . That the present system of tithes has a natural tendency to produce evils of the greatest magni . tude appears to me clearly evident , and I can only hope that some effectual remedy may be applied to avert the evil before it is too late . JAMES GRAHAM .
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$ 6 $ Letter to the Rev . JT , Evaiis > on . C&lviiCs Treatment ofServetus .
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——^ w ^' Sir , Islington * Sept , % 1815 . AS you have lately given a fine portrait of that Unitarian martyr Servetus , with [ references to ] a delineation of his character and an account of his lamentable end , 1 send you for insertion a curious anonymous Letter
which 1 have just received—it relates to the part which Calvin took in the business , and shews the ingenious methods employed by his admirers to extenuate his conduct . At the same time , the only notice I am inclined to take of this nameless epistle , is to adopt the reference inserted in the last edition
( 13 th ) of my Sketch , and which seems to have given occasion to this letter . The reference is strong , I canfess , but marked with a justifiable severity- — " See the Life of Servetus * by Richard Wright , where the tragedy is detailed with all its circumstances of
brutality !" I am , Sir , yours respectfully , J . EVANS . To the Rev . J . Evans . RaundS ) near Tkrapston , Sir , Northamptonshire .
Having read in the 79 th page of your useful Sketch the brief statement of the affair of Calvin and SeryetusJ 1 should be happy to see noticed , m any future edition , the following particulars , which tend to relieve the character of that eminent reformer
from the great weight of odium incessantly and almost exclusively cast upon him . 1 . Calvin had forewarned bervetus of his danger before he came to Geneva- * - " forewarned—forearmed . 2 . He was convicted by due process of law and condemned , not by Calvin , but by the laws and mag istrates of 1 W city . 3 . Calvin tried to obtain for Aim
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 562, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/30/
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