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E- G . Blyth , R . of Burnham . Stephen Allen , Minister of Lynn St . Margaret . James Carver , C . of Lynn St . Michael . James Coulton , V . of N . Wootton . Robert Leeder , C . of East Winch . Robert Hankinson , V . of Walpole St .
Andrew . William Parson , R . of Brandon . George Stracey , R . of Rackheath . Charles Codd , E . Dereham . Caleb Elwki , Melton Constable .
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the proposition he had advanced I ( Heair , hear IJ He would almost venture to say , that a very great majority of those he was addressing never read the Articles of ibeir religion . ( A laugh , and cries of hear , hear , hear !) Of
this he was quite certain , that the most religious parents , who were desirous of bringing up their sons in the most exemplary manner , were not * in the habit of inculcating religion through the Articles of the Church . See Jlfornimr Chronicle .
I am inclined to think that the charge of ignorance upon subjects connected with revealed religion taight be extended beyond the members of the House of Commons to scientific men in general . It is a question
worthy of an answer , How is it that so many very respectable men turn from it with disgust or derision ? " Knowledge , " says Lord Bacon , " is power / ' and every man knows that the possession of power is supremely desirable . All the human race from
the cradle to the grave are in pursuit of it , and although the roads are various through which they have sought or are still seeking for it , yet according to the degrees of their civilization they are rightly or wrongly driving on .
in the pursuit . How far this powerful stimulus is capable of carrying mankind , or how interminable its influence , let those declare who are best fitted to judge ; but the fact is clear that one uniform and irresistible
influence is driving forward the whole human species in search after the best ineans « of securing their happiness . From the history of Natural Science we learn how various have been the opinions of different men in different
circumstances , and that exertion and collision have produced progression and uniformity . So that although the chase may be considered only begun , certain laws have been discovered by the sure operation of winch * we shall be carried forward to the
destruction of our prey . Those who have laboured most or who have becm most successful have been rewarded by the common approbation ; if dis * crepancies have been observed in their
opinions , they have not been attributed to sinister motives , and the reward they have sought they have obtained , which Iiord Bacon so emphaticall y describes-by-. this * word Power .
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S 4 ape of the Times * m , to Theotogp 271
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Sm , inpHESE are extraordinary times . JL One of his Majesty's ministers , one highly gifted , brings a charge of ignorance upon the subjects of religioii against a large and powerful class of petitioners to the House of Commons . Another member of the House
ventures in very measured terms to hint at a consideration of the Thirtynine Articles , and his hints are received with shouts of laughter . The solemnity of the subject is in vain put before the honourable members , for if the report be correct , derision alone was waliing .
But let the report speak for itself ; it is worth your attention whether nay remaks upon it be so or not . Mr . P . Courtenay said he had long been of opinion , and it was an opinion he had been some years informing , and other
years in determining to act upon ( a laugh ) , that all sects and all establishments , not excepting the Church of England , required from their members too great a minuteness of conformity . ( Hear , hear !) It was his humble opinion , which he offered to the House
with great deference , but still with the confidence of sincere conviction , that the time was come when we ought to alter our articles . ( Hear !) If honourable gentlemen would take the trouble to read over the Thirtynine Articles . ( Loud laughter , and
cries of hear . 1 )^—He regretted the levity which the House had exhibited on this occasion , and as he was likely to be the means of having so serious u subject treated with ridicule , he should
close his observations . ( Cries , of " go on / ' and hear !) When the House treated as ludicrous and chimerical the bare possibility of reading the ltnrty ~ mne Articles of our religion waa not this a strong confirmation of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/15/
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