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two pamphlets , which together pretty nearly exhaust the moral and legal arguments on the question % - We shall need no apology for citing from one of them the following forcible sentences : —• The existing church has now a weak side which it had not forty years
ago . Within that period a co-partnership has been formed with the Irish church , in which it is said the abuses are still more flagrant than here . Some reforms must be made in Ireland ; and they will be much stronger precedents for reform in England than if the two churches had remained distinct . I never could
understand the advantage accruing to the English church from that union ; yet the measure , when proposed in the English parliament , passed without an observation of any kind . Not a word uttered either to approve or disapprove . The laity seemed to think that the measure did not concern them in any way ; while , no doubt , the bishops felt pleased at the approaching extension of their corporation to the sister island . For this
worldly conduct , however , the English church bids fair to be -severely punished ; and deservedly , as she has been instrumental in perpetuating the clerical abuses in Ireland . Had the English church never taken that of Ireland into partnership , the latter would have undergone a change long ago . But since the association , the failings of the Irish church have to be accounted for
by the English church also ; it being * the universal law of partnership , that the acts of some of a firm are considered as being done in the name of the whole . Thus will the consequences of the Irish errors be made to fall upon those who have lent a hand to uphold them : thereby confirming the justice of that law of nature , which ordains that vices should carry their own chastisements in their train /
We have somewhat dilated upon what , to us , was the most interesting topic of these letters . JBut they contain much lively gossi p ^ and are not without scattered touches of humour and wit . Some of Mirabeau ' s apophthegms run thus : —' Nobility , say the aristocracy , is the intermedium between the king and the people ; true ; just as a sporting dog is the intermedium between the sportsman and the hare . '
c man possessed of superior mental qualifications is often little suited to society . You do not go to market with ingots , but with small change . ' This is true only where the person of superior mind is placed in society unworthy of him ; such as artificial or uneducated society .
The more the mind , either of man or woman , is enriched by acquirement and reflection , the more does it fit its possessor to give and to receive the highest-species oil enjoyment , social usefulness , and sympathy . We fear there are too many who , like the Abbe' de Languerne , * Church Reform : Effingham Wilson . —A Legal Argument on Tythes , &c . : Effingham Wilson .
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ffi irabedu ' & Letters ? during * his Residence in England . 60 ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 607, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/31/
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