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    the prospect ever so distant , future generations claim it at our hands . &or , when yve measure ; back . the long train of evil years , can the present progress be called slow ; it is only slow and sickening when compared with the ardent hopes we have been taught to entertain , and with the brevity of our individual lives . We who live , wish to see mankind righted before we die . On

    every fresh appearance of the improbability of such a rapid consummation of our deep desires , it is only natural that we should mistake particulars for generalities , and declare the disappointment to be continuous , now and hereafter . But complete success must be slow ; its date must begin after ours is concluded . Exerting all our energies towards the accomplishment of those organic changes previously mentioned ; as the

    precursors of far more profound and ennobling changes in our entire social condition ; we must yet be satisfied with beholding partial results , with loftier prospects through the panoramic vista of coming years , whose lights will be those of . " divine philosophy / ' whose shadows , in the back-ground , those of the gloomy splendour of the Past . Much is to be done , for much indeed is needed ; but if we can . only see human nature placed in a secure road , with the worst of its evils ameliorated , this

    generation has done its work , and we may go to our graves " contented , and grateful . " R H H

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    A BALLAD . By the Author of ' Mundi et Cordis Carmina * A la dy fair , fair Atheline , Did love—as love ' s a gentle thing : .

    And she was wed ; and morn and eve She bless'd her wedding-ring . She kiss'd Sir Ethred ' s noble brow , And fondjed with his snaky hair ; And lay upon his bosom broad—A blessed creature there !

    And of the past she nothing reck'd , And of the future nothing dream'd : The present was All Time to her , And all-eternal seem'd .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/12/