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    feeling and tfcmdirei ; ^^ ethter tfce present gt ^ ifeti ^ U'W (* fc are -Itf e&tet&nfee for fM # pr ^ frfi ^^ d crt $$ & be frbperfy organfeed , is anotJier ^[ tt ^ tion ; but I am cohstrraliied" to acknowledge niy belief , that correcttfeelitig and conduct have as yet resulted but little frotti the ro £ f # circulation of the

    Bible . I conie 10- this conclusion from vvhat I myself have lately witpassed , taken in connexion with a passage in the Life of Major Cartwright , extracted from his letters on u Atnericaa fiidgpeiklenee * ** abotit fifty years ago- H& there says , ** I am Biot only angry with the ministers , bat with the opposition too t , for I have had occasion to learn some of

    their sentiments , and fear there is little real public virtue among theift . But notwithstanding this , I cannot reconcile it to myself not to attempt every thing- which ts witMn my power towards calling the attention < bf \ Mt people to the dangers which I apprehend their liberty is exposed to . There is but one clafc& of men whose

    opinions I rely onr in points of this kind—those who oppose ministers against their own interest , and who are at the same time able to give a reason for the faith that is in them .

    My friend Granville Sharp is of this number He has given up his office at the Ordnance rather than be concerned m carrying into execution orders which he esteems iniquitous . 1 have been anxious to execute my work in the best manner of which I

    was capable , as I entertain hopes that u may be instrumental ih opening the cy ^ of the public . No man is infallible either in politics or in any other science ; but there are some plain things in * which every man of

    common sense may be infallible . Ane principles on which politics are front are the principles of reason , morality and religion , applied to the ^ oncerns of large communities , so lat *¦ i

    U I do not . allnur nAlUiPaV ront ?_ «« do not allow political rectitucte to be according to every man's JWlRtnent , but to be defined by the la of God and nature ; The Scrip-

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    tfarte * ip «» S HWitiikt ^ fcfft ^<^«» ! S ^ nbBi ^ kiffi piffikih ^ Mfemif , mF \ M . tess ^ aV&Mh be U totfcWlfl snmptoouriuta W ittitMl ; f'itM ^ &&fy bfe « tlre wlieiir fie is rtMif err 8

    wtotig on almost everf ^ (| tre ^ flyiw iittpo ^ tance . ^ This extract gives a descriptibh of what may be caWS tim politiear reasoning of toe pubfi ^ fifty years ago , and also records tfte ; b | ^ - nion of the writer by ^ vtat ^ rcfte it is

    that feeling ought to to r ^^ nlatectf Scripture is the ultimate crttferioii both in public and private / pifbei ^ tk * Now , Mr . Editor , thil is tftd pdrnt for whfch I am disposed to ckniWiirf ; nay , I must go further and iiaiitt&in , thbt all our Bible SocfetFes , att bur

    Mechamcs ^ Institution ^ , ail bur public worship , all our private devotfirii ^ are > Comparatively speaking , af little us ^ , trifles ^ tljey tend materiajiy t 6 make titi politically 'just . From what Xhave saidyit will b ^ easily ^ een , that tny ifctind ^ tntf that of tBe worthy Majotfris sdtnferirhSt of t ^ e sam e east .

    h&W&ber inferior iny taleits j and , ebtt ^ e ^ tontly , I eourlfl- cite wttH pleast # & wMeji of Ms corttspxjtidehce * bttt Ilave sbrnef foelibgr f 6 r yoiiir read ^ rsi I mu ^ r , hoover , observe ,, ftiat iti r ^ ftHrehtfe to the trite remark ; that ** every nian hasr hi ^ ptic&J * the Major observes * , " that it is saving fn eflFeet , that our Saviour ' s infcsioti % r

    the purpose of teaching morality ahd bestovving * salvation on riiaukitt < fv so far from being an instance of divine wisdom and goodties ^ s , was ex ^ ii tett , like the vague schemes of purtyliiid mortals , to no mariner of purpose ; for so long as it is their asSeftioii / that

    • every man has his price / so lottg" do they assert that it is iinpossihte to obey the luws of Christ in any toterabie degree . ^ These sentiments mky be unpopular ; and I did not think qf troubling yoit with them had not my mind been a little turned again to the

    subject of the •* moral sense" or the ' * moral principle" by the ingenious observations of Mr . Liickcock ( p . 384 ) . Without pretending to decide on the nice points suggested by him , which , after all , would be easily

    decided , perhaps , if we had but what the worth y Major requires for political decision , ** a heart strictly devoted to truth and virtue , " it is truly lamentable to think hoto little political virtue there is in the world ; &tfd

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 529, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/21/