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of more extended success would be the consequent ability to put them on the same footing as the contributors to other periodicals , ' which derive their superior means of pecuniary remuneration not so much from superior circulation as from their advertisements , —
the capital possessed by their proprietors , and the profitableness of other schemes to which they are rendered subservient . The proprietor owes it to the public spirit of his contributors , to regard the profits of the Repository , so far as they shall exceed a fair allowance for the outlay and labour of its purchase and management , as their property , and purposes to place those profits ,,
proportionately , at their disposal . And , on this principle , he is willing and desirous to invite a more extended co-operation from writers of similar principles and views , who are willing to submit , as they must , to his judgment of the accordance of their productions with the spirit of his periodical , and their fitness for insertion in its pages ; The volume which is now completed—the first in which the
work has been properly our own—must be regarded rather as an imperfect indication of our wishes than a realization of them ; the next will , we hope , show further improvement . A short but interesting portion of the account of Goethe ' s works remains , which , whfen thus completed , will supply a desideratum in English literature . The commencement is in hand of a series of articles on
the character and works of Dr . Priestley , which will deserve the attention of our readers : and we have reason to expect an accession of strength , which will enable us to penetrate into some regions towards which we have yet scarcely ventured to look . Hoping to produce , from time to time , articles which deserve better than the hasty perusal bestowed on what is hired from a
circulating library , —desiring a permanent abode , rather than a casual meeting , with that portion of the public to which we can obtain access , —we must put a negative on the suggested advance of price . We would . much rather reduce it , could we afford to do so without contracting our already narrow limits . As to the slovenliness of our outward man , this ' gear ' ¦ shall * be attended to , ' though we cannot promise much , and must mainly rely on having ' that within which passeth show . '
' The concluding remarks on what a periodical should be , and do , and aiqa at , have our hearty concurrence . The degree of public attention and encouragement which we have received during the year , and which has carried us forward while most of our contemporaries have retrograded , cherishes the hope of our being gradually enabled to approximate towards our 6 wn standard . However that may be , we shall continue to do our best to expose cant and sophistry , and demolish prejudice in every department ; and gladly shall we combine , with the needful
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 796, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/4/
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