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Church , whose vote in the House of Lords set at nought the expectations and desires of a long-suffering people . The fault was in the system which placed them there , more than in the men themselves . They were there , as the chosen and appointed guardians of the wisdom of their ancestors , the sworn defenders of antiquated creeds and ancient institutions . They laboured , therefore , but in their vocation . To separate individuals from their fellow-countrymen , to band them
together as a sacred and privileged class , to render them independent of the people ' s control , and to make their interests independent of the people ' s prosperity—and yet , to expect them to act in unison with the people ' s wishes , and in defiance of the objects for which their Order was created—is another of those anomalies , the blessed fruit of ignorance and error . The supporters of a Church in alliance with the State have , at least , no just ground of complaint . Whilst they continue to abet the cause of evil , they ought not to object to the natural consequences . '
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Demerara ; a Tale . By Harriet Martineau . { Illustration * of Political Economy , No . IV . )
Every succeeding number of this publication increases , not merely our own , but the general conviction of the utility of the work itself , and the great and expanding talents of the author . The labour which it required to select and arrange the materials , great as it must be , is forgotten in the felicity with which they are combined and animated in these powerful stories ; and both are rendered subservient to an object as wise and benevolent , to say the least , as any to which literary exertion has ever been directed . It was our purpose to have made this number the foundation of some general remarks on the great subject of slavery , of which it treats . An emancipation nearer home has diverted our attention , and left us no opportunity . We can , therefore , only add our recommendation of this number , and of the series , to that of the universal periodical press . Those who delight in poetry and pathos , in dramatic
4 Property is held by conventional , not natural right . * As the agreement to hold man in property never took place between the parties concerned , i . e . is not conventional , man has no right to hold man in property . * Law , i . c . the sanctioned agreement of the parties concerned , secures property . 4 Where the parties are not agreed , therefore , law does not secure property , ' ' Where one of the parties under the law is held as property by another party , the law injures the one or the other as often as they are 4 Property is held by conventional , not natural right . * As the agreement to hold man in property never took place between the parties concerned , i . e . is not conventional , man has no right to hold man in property . * Law , i . c . the sanctioned agreement of the parties concerned , secures property . 4 Where the parties are not agreed , therefore , law does not secure property , Where one of the parties under the law is held as property by another party , the law injures the one or the other as often as they are
and pictorial power of a high order , we refer to the prayer of Cassius (( p . 88 ) , the hurricane , and the death of the overseer (( p . 106 ) , and the flight , chase , and catastrophe , in chap . xi . We may look long to find these descriptions surpassed . And to show how nobly the author has illustrated her position , in the preface , that the reason and the sensibilities * are made for co-operation /—and that '' the most stirring eloquence issues from the calmest logic / we subjoin the philosphy of slavery , which is contained in her summary , at the conclusion , of the principles inculcated in this volume . and pictorial power of a high order , we refer to the prayer of Cassius p . 88 ) , the hurricane , and the death of the overseer p . 106 ) , and the flight , chase , and catastrophe , in chap . xi . We may look long to find these descriptions surpassed . And to show how nobly the author has illustrated her position , in the preface , that the reason and the sensibilities * are made for co-operation /—and that the most stirring eloquence issues from the calmest logic / we subjoin the philosphy of slavery , which is contained in her summary , at the conclusion , of the principles inculcated in this volume .
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Critical Notices .- ^ -Demerara . 42 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/69/
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