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- ** 4 lte furious fireWands of cruel persecution , which had consumed so many poor men ' s bodies , were now extinct and quenched . " ( Holl . III . 1181 . ) Whether , as this chronicler 4 l
adds , AH persecution now ceased , " under * a governor that promoted liberty of conscience , " I shall soon proceed to enquire . R . G . S .
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Catholic Bill . ( From the Belfast Monthly Magazine , April 30 , 1813 . ) From the great pressure of other public business which would not admit of postponement , the friends of the Catholic bill have
determined not to introduce it into the House of Commons , until after the Easter recess . Ireland must give precedence to India . We shall not enter into the comparative importance of the two subjects . The interests of five millions at
our doors are , perhaps , politically speaking , equiponderant to those of fifty millions on the other side of the globe ; but there is an ignorant and intermeddling philanthropy much in vogue at present , which holds in paramount consideration the 4 * inhuman * ' and
u degrading" superstitions prevalent in the immense population of India , and anxious for nothing so much as to Christianize that whole population , contemplates with a calm indifference those 4 <
inhuman * and * dGgrading'' distinctions which take place among our own people , and which may well be called political superstitions ^ even more detrimental than the religi . ous , to the best interests of the British : empire , - Patriotism is , in our minds , the
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only true , genuine , practical philanthropy ; and one ounce of the former is of more sterling worth for all the uses and purposes of human life , than all that benevolent but abstract philosophy beat
en into gold leaf , which shines on the surface of so many speeches and writings occupied with the propagation of Christianity among the heathen , deploring so bitterly the moral degradation of India , and at the same time careless
about all moral melioration , either in law or policy , at home , or resisting it merely because it is an innovation . Thus , the burning of a Gentoo wife , or the exposure of infants , excites a paroxysm of horror among these philanthropists ; but the sentence for treason , which orders the bowels to be
taken out before the face of the criminal s or the law , which , by corruption of blood , punishes the innocent directly and voluntarily and the guilty only from sympathy and attachment to those con * nected with them , these and
similar legislative degradations which defile the statute hook , and disgrace the moral character of the country , are cherished , with superstitious awe and irrational re * spect .
Infanticide ! certainly a terri- * ble crime in Ireland , as well as in India ; but not seldom occasioned by the conflict of contending passions , shame , the fear of disgrace , the loss of character , abandon- * merit , despair , the panic of the
moment , the rashness of sudden terror , all motives tearing the heart , and blinding the intellect of the miserable mother , and gene * rating that temporary madness which forgets the nearest and dear * e * t feeling * - of human nature .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/29/
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