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dividual hostility , rather than the deliberate act of a , public body . The most dignified mode of seeking redress for the sufferers , and the most accordant with a Christian spirit , would
have been to have addressed the government in the first instance by presenting a respectful petition and remonstrance through our ambassador , as the petition of the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of England of the Three Denominations . Had this been
ineffectual it would then have been soon enough to have proclaimed the government and people of the canton as persecutors , and to have directed the prayers of the Pissetiters against them , under the pretence of imploring
consolation for the sufferers . ( See the 7 tlx Resolution . ) Such a resolution is naore likely to spread a hostile feeling in this country against the Government of the Canton de Vaud , than to benefit the few individuals who have incurred
its displeasure . If " spoliation and destitution" have been their lot , a subscription would be a more Christian ^ like aid than a prayer ; the good Samaritan did not leave the sufferer jpn the road to run and offer up a pr ^ y ^ r for him in the temple before the public . We may also ask , Why
public prayers have not been before recommended for the Waldenses , that Jong-sufferiug and highly meritorious people , who have endured so many lordships in the last ten years ? Alas the Waldenses are neither Cajvinists nor Methodists , and their ministers are educated at Lausanne . A PROTESTANT DISSENTER .
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I 1 ^ 1—WH ^—Remarks on the First Human Society , guided by the ' Clue of the Mosaic Hecord *
( From the German of Schiller . ) I . Passage of Man to Freedom and Humanity , N the leading-string of instinct , by I which she still conducts the irratujmil brute , Providence was compelled to introduce man into life ; and while his reason was yet undeveloped , to stand behind him as a watchful nurse .
By hunger and thirst she indicated to him the necessity of support , and placed around him in rich store the j » e * M > s of supply \ while by smell and % mtft * she ifldiml him to choice . By a eoff tfHnoatOj she spared his naked >
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ness ; ftnd by universal peace ^ secure his defenceless existence . The eantinuance of the race was provided for by natural impulse . As plant or ani . mal , man was therefore completed . His reason also had begun from
afar to unfold itself . Whilst nature thought , cared , and busied itself for him , his powers could with less hindrance and difficulty adapt themselves to quiefe contemplation ; his reason , distracted by no anxiety could , undisturbed , frame the machinery of speech , and tune the tender instrument of
thought . With the eye of a blissful one , he still looked around him upon creation ; his gay spirit apprehended all appearances without reference to self , and deposited them fresh and
clear in an active memory . Soft and smiling then was the beginning of man ' s course , and this was indispensable in order to strengthen hina fojr the impending contest .
Let us suppose , therefore , that Providence had left him standing on this first round of the ladder , aaaa would have been the happiest and most intellectual of brutes ; but from
the guardianship of natural instinct , he never could have emerged ; free , and therefore moral , his actions never eould have become ; the limits of the animal nature he never could have
overstepped . In voluptuous rest , he would have lived through an eternal childhood—and the circle in which he would have moved , must have been the smallest possible from desire to gratification , from gratification to rest , and from rest again to desire . But man was destined for another
lot ; and the powers that lay within him called him to a totally different species of happiness . What nature had undertaken for him ift his infancy , he was now to perform for himself cm arriving at rmiturity . H ^ himself was to be the creator of his own
happiness , and its kind and degree were to be determined by the share which he should take in its formatioo . Under the tutelage of reason , he vw to Jtearo how to recover that station of » jaacence which he now lost , and , & 8
< i free and rational spirit , was to return to the spot wfeenee he issued , ae * plwt huA a creature of insist ; from a paradise of igiw > ra » C ) P wd l >< MMto gP » b © is erect a&er tlie lapae of cmtmi ®* * to mwk hi * way » p into a pwwdfee ot
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406 Remarks on tht First Human Society ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/22/
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