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On the * Religions Kites observed in Roine , 1816 . 153
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© f suicide ; fr * as mpn is forced into existence , and his constitution mot of his own forming , it $ eems reasonable that if his circumstances are insup ~ portable except through vice and misery , he should be . permitted to abandon a miserable existence to avoid vice and misery . If Mr . Mai thus throws aside revelation ,, which is clearly not with him , either in its directions , in its mo-Uves , or in . its doctrine concerning the
constitution of man , and appeals to th « , law of nature alone , as nature has kindly put it-in his power for . tna-n to get rid of his present existence , why should she be supposed to prohibit from man the use of this power , in a cause so honourable as that of avoiding vice and misery ? Again :- ^ -suppose Mr . Malthus ' s princi p le a principle of action , and without tnis it is nothing ,
it would evidently preclude every labourer from marriage , according to the price o / labour , and the wages given in every state of Europe . WTiere is the labourer to be found whose wages are equaj to-the rearing of a large family without ppverty * or what he calls vice an 4 laiseryl Besides , such are the vicissitudes of this uncertain life , that a nrtau who may suppose himself now to be in circumstances to naarrv , may
soon see his circumstances change and his family be . involved in misery . Mr . Malthus ' s book shews human life with the most dreadful aspect ; but then , if the picture be true , it is in vain to shut our eyes , for truth , however dreadful , must foree itself upon us . The first impression that it makes is , that human life is a dreadful curse , and that the constitutions and circumstances of mankind are such , that the greatest evil is to be born .
" Tlura ^ ian parents at his birth , Mourn their babe witb many a tear , But with unassembled mirth Place him breathless on hie bier . ' * Is this , then , our lot , and is this the Providence which rules the world : with what spirit was it then said " Increase and multiply and replenish the e ^ rth ?"
Perhaps some of yolir Cor respondents will be pleased to point out a brighter aspect of things , and may be able to discover some way of evacling the conclusions of Mr . MaUhus . HOMO .
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Sir , February 24 , 1817-THE papers are continually informing us that the English gentlemen at Rome are particularly assiduous in paying their attentions to his pretended Holiness , to whom they are admitted in all due form , and from whom they receive every mark of distinction whicn
he can confer upon them . This is a new feature in our history , and shews that the ardour of Protestantism is not a little diminished amongst us . I am for one exceedingly sorry for it , and should be rather pleased to hear that
. our countrymen viewed the throne of the beast" with the spirit of their ancestors . It might have been some excuse for these gentlemen , if any disposition had appeared in this restored court to correct the superstition of ancient cfoys , and to abolish the mummeries with which in that corrupted capital religion is disgraced , But
nothing of this kind has appeared . Superstition is presented in all its ancient mockeries , and the Diario Romano now upon my table presents a list of the same follies , the sanae absurdities , the same blasphemous expressions , that though suspended for a . few . years , ars now re-established in all their hideous forms .
The Diario Romano , or Account of the Rites to be performed every Day in different Churches , Chapels and Streets in Rome , for th « Year 1816 , is contained in forty-eight pages , closely printed , with numerous abbreviations , which would make above double that number of an octavo volume among us in common use . The first seven padres
give us rites performed at different places during tiie wbote year . As for example : Im S . Anna alie 4 Fontane si espone il VenuralAle ognz mattina e si da la JBenedizzione la sera . " At St . Anne ' s the venerable ia ex j > osed every morning , and the benediction is given in the evening . " By ilvenercihile is meant the wafer god , or pretended holy presence , the wafer having '' been bv their le ^
erdomain trick called transubstantiation , transformed into the real body of Christ , whom they in common with the great body of Protestants beTieve to be God . Before this pretended god the deluJect votaries ben . d their knees with the sajriie devotion that the Protestants otfer up their prayers to the two gods which thuey call -Q y d tliQ $ on and God the Holy Ghost .
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VOL . XII . X
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1817, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2462/page/25/
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