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of heresies of the Romish Church / as Dugald Stewart justly calls it , was revived by persons impiously styling themselves c Les Freres de la doctrine Chr 6 tienne , ' and by the great body of the bigoted ecclesiastics , ' which , by opposing revelation to reason , endeavoured to extinguish the light of both ; * realizing the absurdity , so happily ridiculed by Locke , of attempting to persuade men to put out their eyes , that they might the better receive the remote light of a star through a telescope .
My own readings of the books either of natural or political economy I must remain personally responsible for ; if in these I have made mistakes , they are involuntary ones ; it is only what others have done before me , who have not been more solicitous to avoid error , and none of whom have more sincerely felt or had the courage to avow that , truth alone being their object , it is not merely indifferent ^ but welcome , let it come from what quarter it
may . I am not sanguine enough to imagine that notes extracted from the Common-place Book of an Invalid , originally made for the sake of personal amusement and information , can supply much interesting matter to a reading public , but if there be found in them little of novelty to engage attention , still there are many ways in which a man may be useful to his fellow-creatures without having been fortunate enough to make a single discovery in
science . Truths already known may be put in shapes more acceptable to certain understandings by some persons than by others even of more original views ; an imperfect sketch may stimulate to other and better delineations of the same subject ; but if the object and the aim be usefulness , the intention , in all cases , consecrates the attempt though it should prove a failure .
• He who makes use of the light and faculties God has given him , and seeks sincerely to discover truth by those helps and abilities he has , may have this satisfaction in doing his duty as a rational creature ; that though he should miss truth , he will not miss the
reward of it . * ,
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NATURE .
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Manifold cords , invisible or seen , Present or past , or only hoped for , bind All to our mother earth . —No step-dame she , Coz ' ning with forced fondness , but a fount , Rightly pursued , of never-failing love . — True , that too oft we lose ourselves ' mong * thorns
That tear and wound . —But why impatient haste From the smooth path our fairest mother drew ? 'Tis man , not nature , works the general ill , By folly piled on folly , till the heap Hides every natural feeling ' , save alone Grey Discontent , upraised to ominous height , And keeping drowsy watch o ' er buried wishes . * Locke ' s Works , vol . iii . p . 125 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 636, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/60/
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