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jmtient , and modest , and charitable , upon pain of forfeiting the sympathy of the prudent , and the right of expecting some remote chance of the possibility of a resource . Justly too , we allow , in many
respects r for every career has its pleasures as well as pains , has action , and hope in it , or the fancied right of complaint , or some other secret support of self-love ; and the sense of
doing one ' s duty is , above all , a payment that may suffice , and suffice well , for a man's self , provided the self be not distributed into other helpless selves , who share the misfortune of his career without
having partaken the excitement that enlivened it . Let it be permitted us to look back a moment at the period ( some twenty years back ) when the sacred fire of the cause of
Reform was reduced to a Few sparks so small , and left in the keeping of hands so little assisted , that the Edinburgh Review , in its witty despair , was for needs blowing them out , or swearing there were none at all . The writer of the
present remarks was then editor of the Examiner , and , in divers formal articles on the subject , had to assert the very existence of the cause against the superior powers and jovial
inefedulity of the editor of the Meview , at that time the reigning authority of the Whigs , and divider of public influence tvith the Tory press . Do we blame that excellent person for the opinion he held ? No :
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no more than we value ourselves , in any arrogant sense , upon our own . Circumstances made us both see the case from different points of view ; and had we been in his place , we should have come to his
conclusion , though with less peril to our antagonist in the power of enforcing it . But what we mean by referring to the circumstance is , that we have a right of the oldest and most enduring kind to a
considerate regard of any present difference of opinion which we may entertain with men whom we personally respect ; and that if anything we say now may seem to militate against their notion of what is best for
the cause , we were among the instruments , however humble , that helped to keep the cause itself alive for their very ascendancy . Let honest
Reformers , Whig as well as Radical , look back at that period , and consider how very few were the public advocates of their cause . Cobbett was its
most powerful upholder , though with a self-will that procured it enemies as well as friends . Bentham was secretly advancing his half- ( though indeed a very large half * - ) philosophy in its support Major
Cartwright , who has been accused of having but one idea in his head , had it however so strongly , urged it so like a missionary and a martyr , and was a man so above all suspicion of double-mindedness , that he had a thousand times the influence that fax abler
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230 Explanation and Retrospection—
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/6/
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