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( Extracted from the Common-place Book of an Invalid . )
Since , after the example of the confederated republics of North America , it has at length become unfashionable , both among the people and governments of Europe , for the professors of Christianity to persecute and worry each other on account of differences in their respective creeds , it may not , perhaps , be deemed unpardonable or contumacious in individuals to choose their own amusements for themselves , —provided , in all cases , they do not
unjustly or injuriously interfere with the lawful avocations of others . On this principle , ( having also certain feelings of independence , which time hath neither effaced , nor calumny rendered less dear , ) during a sojourn for a few winter months in a climate warmer than England is supposed to afford , I ventured to amuse myself in my own way , without , however , abjuring , much less condemning , the manner in which others spend what may be called their disposable time . Thus , without meaning to assert with ancient Pistol , that
' The world is my oj r ster , which I with sword will open / I may be allowed to say that I speculated , at least , in certain branches of natural history , for which the central parts of Fiance afforded facilities , with satisfaction and delight , which , if it may add little to the common stock of human knowledge , never failed to excite additional feelings of admiration , love , and reverence for the great Author of all , who if , when he ' Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm , *
manifests himself more impressively to the ordinary observer of Nature , is , nevertheless , to be equally recognized in the organization of the simplest plant , and in the structure and workmanship of the minutest insect . Other objects , besides those of the singular geological structure , and beautiful fossil productions of Touraine , animate and inanimate , could not fail to attract attention in a country teeming with the fallen monuments of the
superstition and tyranny of by-gone days , and exhibiting the sublime spectacle of a people achieving their own freedom . Of these objects the present state of religion in a country where the anti-Christian connexion of Church and Sgtate has received its deathblow ; the improvements in its civil and penal codes ; but , above all , the practical operation of those laws which affect the descent of property , prohibiting the unnatural practice of a parent
providing splendidly for one child at the expense of the rest of the family , furnished subjects of the highest interest . If , in speaking of the Roman Catholic Church of France , some severity of animadversion be indulged in , let it be remembered -that this is meant to be strictly limited to the abuses of that religion , and that during the reign of Charles X , but recently closed , * that worst
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NOTICES OF FRANCE . —Nq . I .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/59/
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