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THEOLOGY, POLITICS, AND LITERATURE.
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It seems strange that a people so advanced as our own , favoured , as a nation , with so many and clear indications respecting the right
direction of human inquiry and the comparative value of human pursuits ^ should at this day be so indisposed as it is to a union of the two great departments of research , — -Moral and Physical Science . Is it not true that the main body of thinkers is employed in investigating the various combinations of material substances , in exploring the wonders of chemical , and displaying the powers of
mechanical science , while the great ends for which these investigations are pursued , are left almost unnoticed ? Is not physical science made the first object in all our associations for promoting the enlightenment of the lower classes ? Is any thing comprehended under the name of useful knowledge , but the facts which belong to this kind of research ? Do the great body of the people
ever hear , out of church , of any other kind of knowledge which would be good for them , than that which relates to sensible objects ? And is there any counterpoising influence in such of our institutions , as either from their long standing , or from their congeniality with the spirit of the age , are supposed to exercise power over public opinion ? What are our universities doing , and
our schools , and our pulpits , and our periodical press ? Are they aiding or counteracting the bias ? They are not directly aiding , but they are much further from counteracting it . They profess to be the organs of moral science , some exclusively , others in union with physical research . But , falling far short of their profession , they injure the cause they profess to espouse . The three great paths of research by which moral truth may be approached are not
explored by them with a diligence proportioned to their comparative importance . Theology , Politics , Literature , the three phases of illuminating truth , are not watched and philosophised upon , like the greater and lesser lights of the material firmament . Literature , the lowest in the gradation , has the greatest attention paid to it . Our universities have , for the most part , no higher aim ; and such as have , fail to make it good . Classical learning
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MONTHLY REPOSITORY . NEW SERIES , No . LXII .
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FEBRUARY , 1832 .
Theology, Politics, And Literature.
THEOLOGY , POLITICS , AND LITERATURE .
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No . 62 . a
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1806/page/1/
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