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    i&diice its advocates calmiy to refleet whether equal sacrifices and equal heroism and magnaninntity , without such resistance as might

    occasion bloodshed , might not be likely to do " more to disarm the violent oppressor , and to correct his bad passions , than theusual method of opposing force to force ?

    V To taks up arms , as the means of settling a dispute of whatever nature it may be , is to abandon the discussion of what is due to each party on the principles of justice and equity , and to substitute in its room , the law of the

    strongest , or of the greatest adept in the united arts of fraud , violence and slaughter . By such contests in most instances the

    passions of each party are more inflamed in the progress of hostilities , than they were by the original cause of the dispute * And one war is- seldom terminated

    ivitliOut having previously sown the seeds ' of future , and frequently of more extensive and bloody contests . * v

    tfow different would be the effect of a contrary system ! In acting upon which , Philoismuch mistaken in supposing , there

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    SIR , When T sent to you the proposition , uttered by a very excellent and learned professor , in one of the

    universities of this island , which you have done me the favour of inserting in your number for No * \ ember , ( VoL iv , page 621 ) it was my intention in the remarks upon it , to mention the seat of learning whence it originated , Oa

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    would be nothing but Qi peaceable acquiescence in the greatest atro * ci ties . ' ' The peaceable Ch ri stiau might lawfully remonstrate with

    all the powerful energy of consci- / Z . . ous innocence , and , in the eniph a *^^^^^ - tical language of Scripture , pour L ^^/^ f ^^ coals of fire ' upon the head of his >^^ fe >*^ -v oppressor , who might perhaps , A * -A ^*^ in consequence of such an interview , be almost persuaded to become a Christian , not oaly in words but in deeds .

    In such a warfare as this , there might , horrid as the idea is , be some slaughter , but I imagine it would be much less in the course of a whole year , perhaps in a cen - tury , than frequently occurs even in modern wars in one day * ¦ The

    victims would also be , iri general , much better prepared for their final change ,, / and the blood of these martj ^ rs to the cause of Christian truth , instead of gene- rating future wars , would

    probably become the seed of a future and glorious church of peaceable Christians , who would consider and treat all their fellow-creatii f ^ ai as brethren , the children of one common Parent , the friend and benefactor of mankind , PACIFIC US-

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    mature deliberation , however , J have thought it more adviseable , t { jat the proposition should stand as it does at present ; that you ? readers may exercise their judg * ment upon it without prejudice or partiality , and by silting it to the bottom on its own merits examine fairly , how far tfrtf member of an established church r aay be justified in holding the language iia

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    ttemarhs on the Proposition of a learned Professor . IS

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    HEMAUKS ON THE PROP 08 ITI 0 K OF A LEARNED PROFESSOR .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1810, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2400/page/15/