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    vate , the credit which is due to him . But we are told there is not a shadow of " proof " for the doubts excited by Lord Durham ' s letter . Our answer is , that the proof of a thing ' s being doubtful is in the very doubts entertained of it , if they exist to a certain extent , and

    among honourable men ; and that they do so , was our warrant for speaking as we did . But it should be recollected , that in a previous article we

    had defended his lordship against those doubts , or stated what ought in reason to be set off against them , and

    claimed for him the best construction , and the continuance of the public belief ; and when we again alluded to the existence of the doubt , we had no intention of undoing that good construction , or of

    intimating that we did not hold to it . We simply put an hypothesis , as referring to a future contingency , and perhaps with a hope , that his lordship , if he happened to see our publication , might be moved by the effect which his letter had

    had upon some of his best wishers , to take some early step towards setting their minds at ease . For as to " looking down upon , " and

    scorning , & , c . ( which our Atlas friend , though not meaning anything personal to ourselves , was moved out of the usual serenity of his reflections to think of in connexion with

    his noble friend and the doubt ill . general ) a great and good man , in proportion to his great-

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    ness and goodness , looks down upon and scorns nothing . He knows his own weakness too well , as a man ; and respects his fellow-creatures too much , as

    knowing the faculties and capabilities they share with him . It is a pity ( not in this particular instance , for gratitude is a delightful virtue , and its ardour to adhere to a friend

    should be witnessed with re- > gard , even when in its haste it treads on another ' s toes ) but it is a pity that Lord Durham ' s friends in general assume this lofty tone for him , as if there were anything in a nobleman , or in any man , that should set him above the doubts even of

    those who are unwilling to doubt him . Ah 1 dear correr spondentof the Atlas , thyself an instance , through what doubts , and far worse than doubts , are other honest innovators forced

    to make out their case in this world ; and perhaps not succeed at last without being crippled in mind , body , and estate ! what anxieties must

    they not bear , of every description I what obloquy not enr dure I what rage of enemies ! what coldness of friends I what dread for the comgaon wants of those who are dearest 1

    what doubts of themselves , and of their own modesty or fitness 1 what sickness I what visitations of horror and astonishment , and all new and

    strange aspects of the moral phenomena of their own minds I vallies of the shadows of death , through which they are nevertheless expected to issue forth ,

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    The C Examiner " twenty years ago . 229

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/5/