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Mr . Buckingham s Defence of his Public and Private Character , Sheffield . 1832 . 8 vo . pp . 187 . Mr . Buckingham is an able , an active , and an injured man . His life has been a varied and an adventurous one , even from early boyhood . His literary acquirements are highly creditable to him , considering the circumstances under which they have been made , while those circumstances have also enabled him to gain more knowledge by personal observation than other students obtain imperfectly from books . He has at once familiarized his mind with the political science of Europe , and his senses with the scenery of Asia . Accordingly ,
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Thoughts on the New Era of Society . By C . Rosser . Table-talk on the State of Society , Competition and Co-operation , Labour and Capital , Morals and Religion . Birmingham . The first of these tracts is the production of a mind labouring under convictions of mighty truths respecting man and society , but not yet trained to exhibit those convictions in their mutual connection and natural order . A lecture , delivered to auditors from the workingclasses , —a single lecture , comprehending all the great principles on which human character ought to be formed , and social relations organized , is one of the signs of the times now hourly arising . That these principles are huddled together , without their connexion being clearly traceable , and that they are announced in the form of assertion , makes the token all the more significant . Convictions are crowding upon the mind of the multitude so fast , that there has yet been no time to arrange them ; and men are too busy declaring their own knowledge to consider how they may best lead others to attain it , instead of pressing it upon them . These things , while they show that the new era is coming , show also that it is not come ; for then the philosophy which we find intimated in publications like these , will be expanded into system , and substantiated by stated facts ; and the soundness of heart manifested through them will have for its concomitant , an intellect , not only vigorous but well disciplined .
The other publication at the head of our notice , is a sign , of which we cannot see too many ; a sign that the educated and reflective are discharging their proper office : uniting themselves with the classes above and below them , with the view of assisting in the more equal distribution of the necessary and good Ihings of life . This dialogue is admirably conducted ; and it is cheering to see such talent and cultivation dedicated to the service of the people . We are not going to enter now on the discussion of its leading point , —usually deemed a knotty point , —the principle of co-operation as applied by Mr . Owen . We will only refer to it as being stated here in a manner equally interesting and moderate . Our only objection to its perfect fairness is , that the wide relation which the co-operative system bears to the greater system of which it forms a part not being followed out , the whole evidence is not before the reader . Much remains to be said about the relations of capital and population which might modify the reader ' s opinion considerably . But as far as he goes , we give the co-operatives joy of their advocate .
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284 Critical Notices . * - Table-lalk , Mr . Buckingham ' s Defence ..
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1832, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1810/page/68/
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