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bosoms we have leaned as a sacred resting place * must have no power to break our blissful repose . * We must , in short , become different beings , not merely in being purified from the pollutions of earth , but in losing our best and most virtuous affections , our most
serene and unfading joys . Our human hearts must die away within us . I confess myself I have no interest in another life , if it is to bring with it such a change . It is not / who am to be happy hereafter—this heart which is to beat , these sympathies that are to flourish these powers that are to be
unfolded , these tastes by which I am to enjoy . And who is there who would change his individuality for that of another , even to be made better , wiser , or happier ? Who would resign his friends and relatives for those who
would be greater or worthier of his esteem ? Who , that is worthy the name of man , would forget for ever those who have" loved and cherished him , to be the companion of saints and martyrs , or the favourite of angels ? \ Not such , are the everlasting hopes which the doctrine of Universal
Restoration awakens within those who receive it . This belief not onl y assures us of personal happiness , but it makes that happiness consist , in a great degree , in its diffusion on all around us : it enables us to associate ail whom we
esteem in our joys : it opens to us the grandest prospects of human improvement , discloses the statelier vistas of increasing knowledge , happiness and virtue , and gives us the noblest ideas of the dignity of our nature which is
preparing for such glorious destinies : it realizes youth ' s most gorgeous and visionar y dreams .: it enables us to look | back on the mighty deeds of past times with a new interest , for it displays them |? so many death less monuments of the « mnate dignity of man , and as glorious
The orthodox heaven would be an ( « act realization of Mr . Godwin ' s theory of I £ " ^ Ju stice . As recommended by that BmL ° 8 P eculator > a ** peculiar regards t Ce * se , gratitude must be done away , v we affect ; on must be extinguished , and t j t jj m ^ 8 t * 0 V € and esteem only according to vv idtuiJ ^ merit ° S 04111 ^ * the indi " P Prised t Calrinirt m&y perhaps be sur-0 ita * " *** ^ at tne sy 8 tem against which p pt « W ° mulgatlon ' he lavi 8 hed every cxf « ' « aizJ ? k ° i ® Corn and <» sgust , w to be r ** by himself—i u heaven ! * 3
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proofs of what he will be hereafter but it is chiefly welcome to the heart , as making its sweetest emotions deathless , and leaving its own peculiar objects of desire to rest on the splendid prospects which it reveals . It is this principle and this alone which renders friendship and love immortal .
Accord ins : to the orthodox system of Accord ins : to the orthodox system ok future punishment , the noblest and most divine faculties must , in many instances , be left to perish . * The * ' strong divinity of soul" has sometimes been mingled with human frailties , and the intoxication of heart produced by poetical inspiration has caused tha
poet to overleap the virtuous usages of life , and to follow without moderation the impulse of his pleasurable sensations . The pure and deep spring of celestial delight has been sullied in its passage through the world : and yet the generous would discern , even amidst
irregularity and vice , the stirrings of a principle allied to the noblest sublimi ^ ties of virtue , vast capacities for excellence , and bright indications of a celestial origin . ' ^ The light that led astray was light from heaven . " The kindliest virtues and the most sublime
energies have been too often linked with imperfections which have shaded or rendered them useless . But how inspiring is the belief that these powers ana these excellencies shall yet be immortal , assoiled from the corruptions of earth when its temptations are removed
from them , and tuned to heighten the joys of Paradise ! How cheering is the thought that the heroes and sages of ancient btory , who , amidst error and darkness , displayed a majesty of soul which has awed distant generations , are destined to obtain yet greener
lau-* Soon after the commencement of the Eclectic Review , some writer opposing theatrical entertainments , with something more than usual zeal , alluded to the spirit of Shakspeare as mourning in the
everlasting torments of hell the evils caused by his writings . It was formerly said with reference to the disposition of the two re- * formers , ' * that it would be better to go to hell with Melancthon than to heaven with
Calvin ; " and some perhaps would be inclined to make , the same choice between Shakspeare and the Reviewer . It is but jusc to add , that the Eclectic Review has since that time greatly improved both in talent and feeling-, and would now probably treat the fate of the gteatest poet who ever lived only with a mysterious silence .
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On Poetical Scepticism * No . V . 509
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1816, page 509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2456/page/9/
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