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    our being , as an exact acquaintance with the proportions wherein the elements , of which that philosophy gives the laws , are mixed tip and combined in the parties supreme and subordinate , of whose struggles and contentions political action is the resultent effect The search for these necessary premises through the literature which is thrown up to the surface of society—through

    the intimations discoverable in the daily records of St Stephen ' s , © r Exeter Hall , or the Crown and Anchor—and through opportunities of general conversation—may be guided and corrected very beneficially by acquaintance with their roots in times gone by . Our observations of the characteristics of contemporary factions may be shrewdly corroborated and elucidated by possession of the details of their birth , parentage , and

    education . Nor must it be overlooked that , since with sophists our battle is to be fought , it will be well to arm ourselves for the contest with some regard to the nature of the weapons which will be employed against us . Those who would qualify themselves to instruct , must be provided with the means of counteracting

    specific attempts to mislead . No man can feel rational confidence in the adaptation of his plans to the immediate future ; no man challenge confidence from others , who is unable to give a lucicT explanation of the causes which made the good or evil of the immediate past . On futurity , as it is ever passing by him into the past , the politician has to approve his

    sagacity , attest his skill , and certify a character . Such a certificate may justly be demanded by those whom he appeals to , as of authority , and very generally is demanded ; and in proportion to the force which it confers is the temptation to counterfeit it . On this sort of forgery , learning and labour are abundantly bestowed by the interested . The falsification of History is a favourite engine of the oligarchy ; no time is too remote to be tampered with ; and all records are ransacked and misrepresented to furnish false illustrations of fallacious principles . The more remote the time , the more recondite the records—the

    more eagerly are they made available for the manufacture of fictitious political credit . On the exposure and counteraction of these practices , learning and labour may be usefully employed , and will be employed most effectually by those who are conversant with the universality of a refined and dignified Philosophy of Man .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/33/