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v Is it lawful and honourable for such a mat ) , if his t > wncapital be too small , to form with others , in greater or less numbers , a partnership , or joint-stock company , for the carrying on of the proposed work ? t The affirmative replies will scarcely be disputed in a commercial and manufacturing country . . Then i $ co-operation lawful and honourable .
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The French Revolution of 1789 , characterised by the celebrated Mr . Fox as the most gigantic monument to liberty which was ever reared by the genius of man / is incontestably one of the most important events hitherto recorded in the history of human society . The victories of reason , the labours , that is , and the success of
reformers and philosophers from Lecoq and Marcel , Wickliff and Luther , to Voltaire and Rousseau , prepared the way for it ; the progress of information , demonstrating the incompatibility of old institutions with newly acquired ideas and wants , produced an universal discontent , and it was ready to burst forth when any accidental circumstance , financial embarrassment , or
parliamentary opposition ,, should favour the expression of public opinion , the developement of principles and the excitement of popular feeling . Social revolutions take place only when a moral revolution is already effected , and the faults of the existing system are brought to light and certified by experience . The profligacy of the noblesse under Louis XV . and Louis XVI .
accelerated the epoch of political and moral regeneration , but it was wot the cause of the crisis—it might rather be called its prophetic forerunner—it was , in fact , the indication of a gradual revolution ., > vhich had been going on for the three last centuries in the feelings , opinions , and manners of the nation—a revolution of which the year 1789 presented the magnificent and appalling epitome . A
vague instinct directed the multitude , and the generous leaders who were capable of rousing them by the voice or the pen . All their efforts were inspired by a confused presentiment of the future destinies of nations , and of the incurable vices of the former system . The preference of the interests of the aristocracy over
those of the laborious classes , and the brutality with which the latter were trodden under foot by a proud and unproductive nobility , these were the objects which the people , destitute as they were of the advantages derived from moral and intellectual activity , kept in view and attacked either openly or covertly , though
* Souvenirs sur Mirabeau , par M . Dumont . A Translation is in circulation , but this review having been written by a French Correspondent on the original , we inser t it as transmitted . A much' more interesting book , " Mirabeau ' s LettexB during his residence in England / ' hw just appeared ,, but too late for our noticing it thia month ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/24/
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