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    • ON THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE COUNTRY AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1831.
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      m The year which will have completed its course when these remarks shall meet the eye of the reader , will not be lightly passed

      over by the future historian of our country . Its tale is an eventful one , and will require to be told neither briefly nor coldly . A long time must elapse before the most reflective mind can fully develop the instructions which may be derived from its occurrences ; we are too near them for calm and philosophic contemplation ; and we are still under the strong influence of that excitement which it

      must have largely generated in every mind not hardened by selfishness into complete impenetrability . One fact , however , is sufficiently evident , that we are in a state of transition : that old things are passing away and giving place to new ; and that society is in the very act , an act ever attended with convulsive throes and conflicting fears and hopes , of assuming a

      new form , —brighter and happier may it be than all the past Whichever way we look we behold symptoms of change . The billows are tossing and tumbling , heaving , rolling , and breaking , at every point of the compass . The public mind has outgrown public institutions , which must soon be shattered unless possessed of flexibility to admit of a proportionate expansion . Our forms ,

      laws , establishments , whether for the purposes of education , commerce , politics , or religion , are become so insufficient to represent the intelligence , harmonize with the condition , satisfy the wants , and realize the desires of the community , that they must evidently undergo extensive changes , —gradual and peaceful changes it is to be hoped , —any longer to realize the professed objects of their existence . The work has commenced , we are in the process of

      renovation ; in some departments its rate may be more rapid than in others , but it extends to all . The conflict for reform in the Legislature is but the type and index of a wider , deeper , and mightier conflict between principles which began their struggle for mastery over man in the garden of Eden , and shall continue it till the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God

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      MONTHLY REPOSITORY . i NEW SERIES , No . LXI .

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      JANUARY , 1832 .

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      No . 61 . Ji

      On The State And Prospects Of The Country At The Close Of The Year 1831.

      ON THE STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE COUNTRY AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1831 .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/1/