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    ready to do justice to an opponent , * to decry bigotry and intolerance of every kind , and to cultivate and recommend the mild spirit and weighty

    truths of Christianity . In his private character he has been handed down as amiable , as his writings would bespeak him . To his family he seems always to have been warmly attached , and certainly amply fulfilled the prophetic blessing- with which his uncle had hailed him when an infant at the baptismal font :

    A ugeat hie natiis felici gaudia nostra Online , sil patriae gloria magna suae ! , Passionately attached to his studies , he still joined with warm delight in the sober pleasures and amusements of

    social intercourse . Strangers flocked around him from all parts , attached to him by the simplicity and benevolence of his manners , as well as by the depth of his learning , and the liberality with which he imparted-it . To young students , and indeed to all who

    stood in need of his advice or assistance , he was easily accessible , and delighted in readily imparting every aid that it was in his power to afford . He lived to see his favourite work , the labour of his life , the cause , perhaps , of all his vexations , but also the

    source of all his pleasures , launched ijnto the world , and honoured with the unanimous approbation of the learned ; and in this , the completion of all his wishes , the happy consummation of his fondest hopes , he sunk into the tomb , after an illness , the certain termination of which had been

    long before his eyes , but which he bore with the same mild and resigned tranquillity of disposition , which had supported him through all the trials of a laborious and troubled life E . T . ? Speaking of Castalio , he says , u Saltern quod ad ine attinet malirn legere scriptum visi docti et-pii , meae sententise oppositilni , quam scriptum hominis mali et indocti pro inea sententia editum . A tali adversario semper aliquid discimus occasiqi ^ m probet—modestius rectiusque judifcandi . "—Tom . II . 804 .

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    gleanings ; or , selections aud REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL . READING . No . CCCXLIV . Toleration Obsolete . The mind of man outgrows doctrines and sentiments , as a child does its clothes . A century and a half ago , philosophers and liberal statesmen contemplated nothing better for a

    community , divided in religious opinion , than Toleration . Before their generous scheme was fully accomplished , it began to be seen that Toleration had a tincture of evil ; that

    whilst it mitigated the practice , it recognized the right , of persecution . In principle , Toleration is at variance with Liberty , without which no patriot , no philanthropist , no enlightened Christian will rest contented .

    It is a question of curiosity , to whom we are indebted for the first public expression of this sentiment , now , happily , so common 1 Do we owe it , with other signal benefits , to the French Revolution ?

    Rabaud de Saint Etienne , a Protestant minister , thus declared himself in the National Assembly of France , August 27 , 1789 : " It is not for Toleration that I plead . As to intolerance , that savage

    word , 1 hope that it is expunged , for ever , from our annals . Toleration suggests the idea of pity , which degrades the dignity of man ; but Liberty ought to be the same in favour of all the world . ' *

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    No . CCCXLV . Free and Slavish Writers . Writers who possess any freedom of mind ( says the Author of the Ristorv of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , in his Vinci , of xv . and xvi . chaps . ) may be known from each other by the peculiar character of their style and sentiments ; but the champions who are enlisted in the service of authority , commonly wear the uniform of the regiment . Oppressed with the same yoke , covered with the same trappings , they heavily move along , perhaps not with an equal pace , in the same beaten tract of prejudice and preferment .

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    256 Gleanings .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/44/