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strengths ^ nd sjitendoi ? tpk me ^ £ ? & % pi | opnisto # j 4 > At nothingin ( fivi ( J | ial ] y .. < jpr collectively apart from hiin ; % he Ultras , who knew fult well , that they could not connect themselves with a liberal and enlightened age , and that their strength could only be fouiMed
on man ' s intellectual weakness , have been constantly plotting the revival of those blessed days , when priests and kings were " all in all . " They have had some triumphs j but to judge from the false and foolish hopes they are indulging , they are little read in the history of man . They cannot turn backwards the tide of improvement :
its stream is strong , though perhap 3 not now impetuous . They see but a short distance into futurity ; they are even scattering about with the disease the germ of a remedy , since in the beautiful arrangements of Providence ,
infatuated folly becomes its own corrective . Let it be again repeated that the great allies of Protestantism are literature and liberty . The first edition of the New Testament had scarcely been issued from the press , ere the Reformation burst upon the world . Is it the remembrance of this
interesting fact which has caused the pertinacious opposition of the Church of Rome to the circulation of the Scriptures ? The Ultras in France , contemptible for their number , would be contemptible on every account , but for the patronage of the reigning family and for the concentration of their strength
in the two Chambers , which give them an influence in the general system of government , to which the weakness of their party in the mass of the nation would never have dared to aspire ; but what they want in strength , what they want in argument , they make up in activity and intrigue . Their missionaries , the Jannisariea of their faction ,
are spread ov £ r the surface 6 f France , scattering the poSstfta ' of hatted and bigotry , faimfti ^ anft Tostermfe WhkU eyer & l « rf % < jf the / jarimof ol < f iWranee ^ M
not tjbtffl ^ e ^ fr ^ tio * i . T ^ vW ^ is again introduced ; virgins aad ^ saints are re-enshrined io fcjieiitfornier niches ; immense crucifies are erected in the i& | u& # es and the ! highways . <> AH these tiM eftmp&nitWdly iitaoCent ; but their crusades against literature , their vehe-
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aflmiratibn Mhe I ^^^^ laeir apologies for St . BaitholomewVday and the miirderers at l ^ js ^ es ^ , ^ vvhich the writer has hea £ ^ these are fearful and threatening symptoms oh which pity would be wasted ,
and to which charity will not apply . and to which charity will not apply . Wm it tg bel % pd ^ at ^^ of th $ ir Journals Om ^ m \ § w * rF $ &y * **» ventured thus -to address the Pro . testants : € ( Hommes imprudens ! ne craignez-vous pas ^ qii 5 U ii * ypy ® ^ jwremie envie de nous compter ? ^ f ^ That Llorente , the admirable author , of the
History of the Inquisition , has been deprived of the privilege of saying mass , because of his enmity to the holy office and the Concordat ? That the Ultras objected ( but not successfully ) to the establishment of a chemical chair at . Marseilles , under the
pretence that " chemistry had caused the Revolution' * ? But those who lqve to mark the course of the philanthro pist and the patriot , and who have seen how the estimable Gre ' goire was excluded from the Chamber of Deputies , the assassin-like malignity with which he was attacked by those who seemed
emulating that famous mob of old , who cried , " Crucify him , crucify him , " will wonder at nothing , for the Ultras seem capable of every thing .
* And when ( mistaken men ) you have counted the Protestants ^ and find you have thirty to one against them , will you hive courage and Catholicism to attack and to extirpate them ?
+ Gregoire , in a letter to the writer , thus expresses himself- " J esp&r 6 v © us revoir quand vous freviendrez , si cependant vous me trouvez yiyant , car la ftirie des gens & qui je n'ai jamais fait aucun
mal , mais qui sont stimulus et largement pay ^ s , est pciuss ^ e ^ tel exc ^ s ^ u ' apr ^ s avoir tvdtt d ^^ a ^ er itiH reputation U ne leur resfe qae de m * assa ^ siner physiqueiaent , k jb < lie doiito ti ^ de feur bonue voldHt ^ a < M"MsMl pendant la Frovidehcg i ^ aWrf 3 ^ m > uis toujows
config ; WmdormWW <( M « p ^ ations ; car la viV | j ( l ^ # d ^ ^ i& « ^ des cipMW ^ W # l ® n > rlivolt ^ les hoThtoe ^ jA ^ Ws ^ fe rm ' tipll 6 l ^\ MW ^ £ % ^^^ de me . amis et plus ^ ^ ^ M t ^ # a ® k % ^ ois mois V al' ( Stf coihbl ^» t ^» Mfes . ^ estiipe de la t m ^ ttm ^ ^^^^ t ^ awn ! les graces 'ma'tttefrM * fatdM ^
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326 The NonconfoVhast . No . XIX . '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 326, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/2/
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