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mean ye that beat my people to pieces , and grind the faces of the poor ? " * Some , however , of the more disinterested forerunners of the Reformation , seem to have held the opinion
that private property was inconsistent with Christianity , f- especially the venerable Wicliffe and Ball , but some of their adherents fell into the error ( not to be wondered at in that age ) of attempting to establish their opinions by
* " The country gentleman from his neighbour ' s hand Forceth th' inheritance , joynes land to land , And ( most insatiate ) seekes under his rent
To bring the world ' s most spacious continent ; The fawning citizen ( whose love ' s bought dearest ) Deceives his brother when the sun shines clearest , Gets , borrowes , breakes , lets in , and stops out light , And lives a knave to leave his son
a knight . " Browne's Pastorals . See also Goldsmith's Deserted Village , and the passage in Sir Thomas More ' s Utopia , lib . i . from which the following description is taken : " Ergo ut unus helluo inexplebilis ac dira pestis patriae ,
contmuatis agris , aliquot miliia jugerum uno circundet septo , ejiciuntur coloni quidam , suis etiam , aut circumscripti fraude , aut vi oppressi exuuntur , aut fatigati injuriis , adiguntur ad venditioucm . Itaque quoquo pacto emigrant miseri , viri , mulieres , mariti , uxores
orbi , viduae , parentes cum parvis liberis , et numerosa magis quam divite familia , ut i milt is opus habet manibus res rustica : emigrant iuquam , e notis atque assuetis hiribus , nee inveiiiunt quo se recipiant , supellectilem oinucm baud magno vendibilein , etiam si mauere possit emptorem ,
quum extrudi neccs . se est , minimo vemindant : id quum brevi errando insumpserint , quid restat aliud denique quam uti furentur , et pendeant juste scilicet
« vut- vagentur atque mendicent : quam-< liuun turn quoque velut errones conjicinutur in carcerem , " &c . This tragedy has recently been revived in the county of Sutherland .
r rorthi cristene men scholde been in commun riche , no cove tide to hym selve . Piers Plouhman , passus vii .
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force . * Whether there may have been any others among the Reformed that have not lost sight of the apostolic institute , I have scarcely been able to inquire . * f The constitutions , indeed , of the Moravians , t the Shakers , and the * This highly culpable disposition is also , imputed to the Spenceans , whose object appears to be the re-establishment of the feudal tenures , upon a modified
system . -f * Bock mentions , among the early-Unitarians , Gregorius Pauli , and Daniel Zwicker , as advocates for a Coniniunity of Goods . There is an interesting , though rather tart , correspondence on the subject
between Zwicker and Ruarus , in which it does not appear to have occurred to the former , when his antagonist urged the want of permanence of the institute of the Jerusalem Church , that it had been continued to his own time in the
monasteries . X The picture of a Loan Farm , occupied by a Vee-boor , ( a Cape of Good Hope land-holder or country gentleman , ) and the same portion of land supporting ii Moravian community of Hottentots at Gnadenthal , affords an interesting and
striking contrast . It is taken from Mr . Latrobe ' s account of Gnadenthal . " Little do I wonder at the rapture with which this place is spoken of by travellers , who , after traversing a dreary uncultivated country , rind themselves transported into a situation , by nature the most
barren and wild , but now rendered fruitful and inviting by the persevering diligence and energy of a few plain , pious , sensible , and judicious men , who came hither , not seekiug their own profit , but that of the most despised of nations ; and while thev directed their hearers' hearts
to the dwellings of bliss and glory above , taught them those things which have made even their earthly dwelling a kind of paradise , and changed filth and misery into comfort and peace . " " Nearly 1300 Hottentots now inhabit this village , which was once a perfect
wilderness , or , which amounts pretty much to the same thing , a loan farm , lield by a single Dutch boor . It consists of 256 ' cottages and huts , containing 1276 inhabitants . Every cottage has a garden , from the state of which the disposition
of the owner is pretty well known . The loan farms are tracts of about 5000 acres granted in perpetual leasehold , on payment of 5 / . per annum , or a farthing an acre , and are occupied by the Vee-boors . " The whole establishment of a Vee-
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The Nonconformist , No . XX . 95
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 95, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/31/
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