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friend is to prove that we deserve his confidence ; and that religion ( the religion which consists in opinions only ) will ever be found to thrive best under persecution i It is one of the firjstr principles of action in the human breast to resist oppression ; and our prejudices are much more likely to be riveted than removed when authority attempts to expel them by force or by obloquy and misrepresentation , the northern blasts induce the traveller to wrap himself more closely under his cloak ; it is the warm and cheering influence of the summer ' s sun ( hat causes him to throw aside the mantle and
enjoy the full luxuriance of bis invigorating beams . Would it not be well to make the experiment , while we possess those means of controul which may not always be our protection ? No , 5 . Sound Argument , or Cabinet Logic . That war engenders famine 9 we deny ; Opinions so disloyal thwart our wishes ; To our insatiate need a kind supply , It much improves our stock of " loaves and fishes . "
No . 6 . Some of the public journals , a short time since , mentioned a decision in one of our courts of justice , that a grandfather is bound , if able , to maintain his grandchildren , provided that their parents have not the means of doing it . What are we to think of such an opinion ? How few grandfathers are there whose property would not be totally swallowed by
such a claim ! And what a powerful incentive for idleness in a father who knows that his children or the parish may make the demand!—Is this statute or common law , or the ipse dixit only of temporary and mistaken authority ? Is it possible such a law should exist in the same code as the law of primogeniture—or , if it should , by which of them should the practice of society be regulated ? The one burdening a man in moderate circumstances with a load of which no human foresight can calculate the
extent—the other releasing the man of enormous wealth from even the maintenance of his own children ! The family estate goes entirely to the first-born , though there may not be a farthing left besides for a numerous family , who are thus necessarily thrust upon the public purse for their subsistence . What then becomes of our boasted privilege of equal laws for the protection of persons and property ; and is not such a glaring solecism
and falsehood enough to lead to the conclusion , that those who have no share in making such laws have no tie upon them but force and fraud for their observance ? The Revolution abolished in France the law of primogeniture , and that abolition is still continued . When two or three generations shall have passed away , and all personal recollections are entirely forgotten , will not this single good be considered as making ample amends for all the evils attending the arduous struggle ? JAMES LUCKCOCK .
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MpraiHuefiM . 579
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 579, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/27/
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