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her reign , to render it necessary for reflecting people to remind the less reflecting of that perilous condition annexed to the royal state .
Consider a human being so yqung , and of a sex as well as age the moist sensitive , standing in that ascendantmanner before a crowd of her worshipping elders , —blazing with wealth and gorgeousness , —cried after and blessed wherever she
appears , —never moving without exciting an interest intense , —possessing actual power of the rarest and most peculiar description , —conferring honours , — altering and exalting the colour of people ' s sensations for their whole lives . —and on
occasions like the present , issuing forth like something superhuman in human shape , announced with extacies of pealing and crashing bells , and the leaping thunder of cannon !—Who could wonder if the
wonder itself were almost too much for the brain of human being so raised above its fellows ? or where there is no danger that way , who has a right to quarrel
with the object of such worship , if a less sensibility take its merits for granted , to the detriment of those who impute them ? At all events , is not
the thing itself a wonder in man ' s history ; and reasonably calculated to excite reflections of the deepest nature on the phenomena of circumstance and Providence , whether to purposes of duration or vicissitude ? It is easy to talk of delusion and puerility ; but delusion
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itself is a part of the economy of the universe , and becomes a fact in the belief ; nor can even our respected , we will add , revered friend , excellent Robert Owen ( the most Christian-minded man now living , and we know excellent
Christians too , Church 6 f England , Dissenter , and Catholic ) induce us to believe , that all the past history of mankind is nothing
but a mass or irrationality , without a meaning and a good ; or even without a necessary inclusion of the greater good which is to come , unproducible perhaps except by the previous ill , like a fruit out of its husk . And we think lie injures his
noble aspirations after good by thus disrespectfully treating the mystery of what has been , and risking a contempt for that very humanity , which , according to him , is to follow up such mere irrationality with such sudden and entire
reasonableness . Wonderful , we doubt not , are the changes to come ; for wonderful have they been , and are ; and most wonderful of all would it be to suppose ,
that vicissitude itself is to stop , as it never yet did for any body , out of compliment to our present notions , Tory or Radical We believe also , as Mr Owen
does , that those changes , though not in every respect such as he looks for , may come quietly , and happily for all , and with not a detriment to queen or ploughman . But we are getting upon other subjects . Suffice it to say for the present , that we were among those the
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84 The Queen .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/12/
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