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Volume , pp . 580—584 . Mr . Withers could not escape the imputation of heresy in 17 IB , though he disclaimed Arianism . Ibid . " Cox . " In West . Inquis . ( p . 181 ) " Mr . John Cox , of
Kingsbridge ^ ' is described as " araan whose character has been so unblemished , and his conversation so exemplary , that his most malignant adversaries have been forced to speak well of him . " He was dismissed by his congregation in 171-9 , because he would not subscribe " the first Article of the
Church of England , or the fifth and sixth answers of the Assembly ' s Catechism , " though he ci told them he was
no Arian . " J . T . RUTT . P . S . Mr . Yates ' s remark ( p . 205 ) on " the French Theophilanthropists " is well-founded . In the " Manuel
des Th £ anthrophiles , " a small pamphlet , published at Basle in 1797 , besides various incidental allusions to the Scriptures , there are nine pages entitled " Peneees Morales , extraites de la Bible . " Of this Manuel I gave some account in a Note to Priestley ( X . 476 ) .
T . C . H . ( p . 211 ) has named my regretted friend " the late excellent and ill-used Mr , Fyshe Palmer , " instead of the Rev . John Palmer , who died at Birmingham in 1787 , and of
whom Dr . Priestley gave an account in TheoL Repos . VI . 217 , which I lately reprinted in his Works ( XIX . 523 ) . I am not aware that Mr . Fyshe Palmer used any signature in the TheoL Repos . besides Anglo-Scotus .
I beg leave to inform your justly respected Correspondent Mr . Silvanus Gibbs , ( p . 227 , col . 2 , ) that ever since I reprinted the " History of the Corruptions , " in the Fifth V olume of Dr . Priestley ' s Works , I have been desirous of publishing it in the form he describes , and with the Notes which I
have added to the last edition ; especially as the author evidently intended that History , as a continuation of the Institutes . Should €€ our Tract Societies" be of Mr . Gibbs ' s opinion , and communicate to me in any way
their encouragement of the design , the prosecution of it should not be delayed . I cannot think that the € f History of Early Opinions , " containing as was necessary to the author ' s important purpose , absurd , and sometimes dis-
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gusting passages , quoted from the fathers , would be as well calculated for popular use . " A good history of Unitarianism" is , I fear , to be desired rather than soon expected . As a step towards the attainment of such an
object , a translation of Sandius was proposed in one of your volumes . An Antitrinitarian biography , if only of English writers , would indeed serve , if arranged chronologically , to carry on , in an attractive form , the history of Unitarianism , and would comprehend no small portion of talent and Christian
excellence . It is obvious that such a volume would be a valuable manual , especially to the rising generation
among us , and to new converts . They would thus have a ready answer to those who deny what Dr . Toulmin , the tutor of my early and the friend of my later years , ably maintained , and still more powerfully exemplified , " the practical efficacy of the Unitarian doctrine . "
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276 Mrs . Hughes on Mr . Brougham ' s Education Bill .
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Bristol , Sir , ^ April 26 > 1821 . TT HAVE read in various periodical
JL publications , many serious and wellfounded objections to Mr . Brougham ' s Education Bill , most ably pointed out , —but what appears to me beyond all comparison the most forcible of all , has scarcely been even adverted to by
any—namely , the manifest tendency which it will necessarily have to degrade and demoralize a large part of the population of this country . Under a weak and most fallacious pretence of extending the means of instruction amongst the males , all females of the
lower classes are by this Bill ^ and at no very distant period , to be plunged into the ignorance which involved their progenitors in the dark ages ! The " glad-tidings" of the gospel are to
be disclosed to English women only through the medium of the desk and pulpit , or by the pure and correct information which they may be likely to gain by inquiring of their husbands , brothers , &c . at home ! for our liberal
and enlightened legislators are about to seal up the Bible from their view ! An act is about to be passed in the 19 th century to reduce a vast majority of the females of this country , as nearly as may now be done , to a level with those of Himlostan ! It will perhaps be said by the pro-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1821, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2500/page/20/
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