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are among the persons who are guided hy the pure and simple motives of patriotism ; for they can neither acquire emolument nor patronage , by aiding this establishment . Your readers , at least , will receive great pleasure in witnessing an association of persons , who , disregarding all religious and political differences , have united to promote the interests of unadulterated and unadorned benevolence ; and we may all hope to see that system of liberality reduced to practice , which is the end of all religion and all philosophy , and which a person might leave unaccomplished , " although he gave all his goods to feed the poor /*
As soon as the trust was formed , and not till then , a small number of persons paid their first subscription into the " Economical Bank ; amongst whom a widower paid two shillings as the commencement of an intended payment of one shilling per week , to provide annuities for each of his two daughters at the age of fifty-six . One of the children is now fourteen , and the other six years of age ; and the father justifies his arrangement by observing , that he " frequently spends a shilling in fruit or pastry for them when they do not want it , and often goes to the pit or the gallery when he should be better away from It . " He will therefore be able to make a real and valuable provision for his children , by a contribution that he will scarcely feel .
The point already gained , though not clearly discernible by the vulgar eye ., will be of immense value to the reflective mind . It is nothing less than having reduced to practice some very greatly admired positions which we have hitherto been satisfied to contemplate as mere visionary theories . ¦¦ " National reform / ' it has been said , must be preceded by individual reform ; and it is added , that " the people must be taught to preserve their independence before they can value freedom /' We are also told , that " the possession of property tends to check criminal habits ;'" and that " it is more beneficial to society to reward virtue than to punier vice . " But wise men seem to have said good things merely foi their amusement ; a ^ d both the wise and the foolish have been too fastidious to apply them to real life .
Whilst this institution professes to improve the condition of the people , its provisions are accommodated to t , heir circumstances ; for the poorest labourer may bank his solitary sixpence , with the same facility as the man of opulence his congregated pounds ; and that no discouragement may be thrown in the way of any practicable exertion , t ^ e benefit of each sub * scriber is exactly proportioned by his gwn payments ^ without
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22 Institution of Tranquillity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/22/
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