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    CRITICAL NOTICES.

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    ranks amongst the very elements of morality . It should produce that searching self-examination which detects the deceits men are apt to put on their own minds and consciences . It should make man require of himself that which God requires of himtruth in the inward parts . No fiends without have ever done so much to palter with us , in a double sense / as the tempter within . There is the deep root of deception ; there should be the lucid fountain of simplicity , sincerity , frankness of character . We

    degrees or in what precise way the world will grow more honest and individuals more transparent . Nor would I underrate the virtue that exists . Enough , blessed be God , to redeem the name of humanity from its calumniators . My object is perfectly simple , tangible , practical , and practicable . It is only this : —do not set snares for others' sincerity ; nor for your own . Do not influence sceptics to disingenuousness , by joining an outcry about

    damnable heresies or doubts . Do not help to pollute the springs of Christian instruction by demanding that the teacher should profess and ever adhere to the previous faith or prejudices of his pupils . Do not judge character by opinions , and assume depravity in the one on the ground of error in the other . Do not uphold institutions and practices which legalise falsehood , that would be ridiculous , but that all falsehood is worse . Do not

    take the fact in the proverb for a precept : 'It is naught , it is naught , saith the buyer ; but when he is gone his way he boasteth . Do not countenance cant of any kind , interested or unmeaning , in any department , —literature , education , society . Do not praise or frighten , or suffer others to praise or frighten , your children

    out of the straightforward path . Heed your own example , both in its direct and indirect influence . Be true to yourself ; to your inmost soul . Live in the conscious presence of the God of truth . These are the moral of my discourse—these are practical precepts—these are ^ 1 am sure , Christian precepts .

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    should not shrink from avowing our real motives to ourselves ; that is the way in which iniquity is found to be hateful ; and man gains satisfaction in righteousness , whatever its earthly and immediate consequences . And let no one say that , in this discourse , I am aiming at anything Utopia * i or chimerical . I pretend not to say by what

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    A Lecture delivered over the remains of Jeremy Bentham , Esq ., in the Webb-street School of Anatomy and Medicine , on the 9 th of Jvne 9 1832 . By Southwood Smith ^ M . D . 8 vo . pp . 73 . Wilson . Some extracts from the MS . of this Lecture were given in our number for July . The whole of it is mow before the public , with many amplifications and additional illustrations . It is a noble composition , and

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    Subdrndtion of Insincerity . 705

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    CRITICAL NOTICES .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/55/