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Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for January f 1825 . UNITARIAN FUND REGISTER . It is melancholy to observe the desponding tone in some parts of William Roberts ^ communication . Professor Sylvester ' s Letter . The last sentence of this translation is
obscure . Does it mean tha ^ t Transylvanians are educated at Vienna , ' in defect of any public funds" ? But suppose the pubKc funds are supplied , where are they educated then I They are not allowed , it seems , to go out of the limits of the Austrian
empire . Feople are thrown into strange company , and are induced to utter strange things * by the combinations which iake place in this sublunary
world . In order to keep his Protestant subjects well balanced against each other , the Emperor of Austria protects the Unitarians , and therefore we hear an Unitarian Professor
lauding to the skies Francis First , * ' of glprions reign , our most gracious Prince—illustrious % by his achievements both in Church and State , " &c .
Plan of a General Unitarian < dsmciation . There appears to me one feature in tins project , which mars ifcs simplicity , uniformity and symmetry , ancj might , I should fear , be liable to introduce some confusion
Into practice . I alljide to the circumstance of intermingling individual subscribers on ^ the same platform of xighta and privileges , with corporate Societies , Churches and Fellowship Funds . Could not the elements of
the Association consist of materials less heterogeneous ? Let all the metropolitan subscribers , for instance , first unite themselves into one or more subordinate , auxiliary societies , who should eleqt their representatives , apd s ^ nd up their contributions to the General Association . Since the
Unitarian public of England is already organized by means of various minor bodies , which it is proposed shall be benefited by t ] he General one , it seems right that the latter shQuld consist oply of representatives delegated from corporate bodies . The number of these representatives might
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reach to » ny extent , the apportionment being always made , ae much it * reference to the sums contributed by each subordinate association , as to the number of individuals it contains . Might there not be an article
providing for the admission into your General Meeting of delegates from Foreign parts I The year , it is to be hoped , is not distant , when you shall receive , at one time , represeptatives from Indip , America , Transylvania , Germany , Switzerland and elsewhere .
Under the auspices of this Society , I look forward to authentic lists , fro-m titn £ to time ,, of Unitarian congregations , their numbers , their pa&tors , their dependence or independence with
regard to property , &c * Perhaps , however , tlus is a measure t ^ o- be discussed and adopted hereafter * rather than provided for in the constituent articles .
What a strong tendency exists in the human mind , when enlightened , towards Republicanism ! If this grand Association shall go into operation , wh ^ t will its supporters be , but a RespubViQa in Imperio ? It will have numbers aud wealth , and therefore
power . It will be a general Congress , or something like a Congres 3 and Convocation united . The day may not be distant , when its influence shall away the decision of some critical vote in Parliament . Its
professed object is even now partly political * Who knows bow rapidly , during the next twenty years , the ranks of Unitarianism may be increased , by one of those sudden and resistless movements which so
frequently take place in the sentiments of the enfranchised hunaan mind ? Who knows what political connexions Unitarian ism may form , and what powers it may set into action , by the innocent machine which ; it is now
organizing I At all events , coming in , as it will , on the heels of the retreatin # Catholic Association , sooi q future historian may wonder at the boldness of its supporters , and at the leniency with which an inconsistent Parliament shall permit ita existence .
I have one or two remarks to suggest on particular articles . Art , \ 2 * Suppose any of the societies in London should wi&h to merge itself into the Association and
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9 " ^ * r m m * 74 Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository fw January , 1825 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 74, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/10/
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