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    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.

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    tfGTE on Wallace ' s cc prospects of mankind / ' &c . in PRICES DISSERTATIONS . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    Sir , I ought sooner to have thanked your correspondent Mr . Christie ( p . 182 ) for his information respecting the author of the Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankin d * The name of Dr . Wallace was already known to me as the reputed author of an anonymous work entitled ^ Various Prospects of Mankind , Nature and Providence , ( 8 vo- 176 l ) 5 of which there has beea a second improved edition . To this work which is mentioned by Mr , Malthus , in his Essay on Population , I was first attracted by the notice which Dr * Price had taken of it in his Dissertation on Providence . Having observed that " it is not impossible that before the end of the present state , a geneia ! reformation may take place , and knowledge , peace and virtue prevail much more than they have ever yet done ;** he ; adds the following note : —

    " It is the opinion of some , that the world has from the first been gradually improving , and that it will go on to improve till superstition and wickedness shall be in a great measure exterminated . The ad * vances and discoveries made within the three last centuries are , indeed

    wonderful , and may well lead us to expect an approaching general amendment of human affairs . The light which has been lately struck out , will probably increase ; and the more it increases , the further tyill tree inquiry and generous sentiments spread ; the harder will it he for established corruptions to maintain their ground ; and the more the way will be prepared for the downfall of all slavish hierarchies and governments , and for the introduction of those times , when truth and liberty shall triumph over all opposition , when nation shall no

    More lift up a sword against nation , every false religion be destroyed , and the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of the Lord and of 'his Christ . I cannot think it necessary that the world should continue ior ever divided , as it now is , into a multitude of independent states , whose jarring interests are always producing war and devastation . A scheme of government may be imagined that shall , by annihilating

    property and reducing mankind to their natural equality , lemove most of the causes of contention and wickedness . An account of such a scheme has been given by an ingenious writer in a book entitled . Prospects of Nature . Mankind and Providence . It is there q £ h

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 517, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/9/