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particular union with human nature , and in this form dwelt and conversed among us ; as Jesus says , He that hath seen me hath seen the Father . That there is something sublime , mysterious , and even hi a measure incomprehensible , in this doctrine of the union of < 3 od with man in the person of Jesus , is so far from being an objection to it , that it enhances both its probability and its
interest : its probability , because it accords with the style of the writer ; its interest , from its agreement with the known principles of the human mind . An interpretation of John which divests him of all mysticism has , from that very circumstance , a presumption against it ; and one which strips the highest doctrines of holy writ of all obscurity and sublimity , so far deprives religion of its interest and its power .
Your correspondent will , T trust , excuse the freedom of my remarks , believing that it arises from no feeling of disrespect , but from a sense of the importance of the subject . T . F . B .
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Experiment in Monmouthshire for bettering the Condition of the Poor . To the Editor . Sir , fVoodfieldy March , 1829 . It must not be taken for granted that the whole of the village population stated in my last letter consists of the families of those who have acquired property for
themselves in the way aud with the encouragement before mentioned . Such a conclusion would not be warranted by facts . True if is that the experiment was entered into with no other view or expectation than that of trying whether , if the labouring poor were relieved from the extreme pressure of that poverty which of late years has reduced them to a situation little better than that of mere beasts
of burden , their circumstances might not in some important respects be materially improved ;—whether they themselves , or the institutions of society , were the causes of , and consequently answerable for , the deplorable state oi destitution and degradation into which they had fallen;—or , whether these , together with the lamentable increase of crime resulting
therefrom , were natural , necessary , and therefore unavoidable evils . Those , therefore , who were expected to afford subject-matter of practical proof under this experiment , were invited to become settlers ; but when the plan began to be more generally understood , and greater numbers offered than were at first contem-
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plated , their local and indispensable wants also increased ; and as these could only be provided for by persous of greater pecuniary ability than themselves , shops for local supply became necessary , and leases were granted to such as were willing to erect them . In the progressive increase of the population and its
improving condition , under circumstances by no means unfavourable to such a speculation , several of the first settlers borrowed money to assist them in building a second house adjoining their first ; some few persons took land for the purpose of settling a newly-married son or daughter thereon ; and others , again , did the same with the intention of building houses to
let as a profitable in vestment . Without this extension of the limited views beforehand entertained , experience shewed that the experiment itself would have been exceedingly narrowed ; and , as will appear in the sequel , though neither of the villages consists exclusively of habitations
reared by those who occupy them , this necessary extension of the plan , in the course of its natural and successful progress , has not only benefited all parties , including inhabitant owners , but been the means of furnishing additional proof of the soundness of the general principles on which the whole was founded . To
the tenure , originally a freehold lease of three lives , the privilege of adding a fourth life was gratuitously offered at a time when the attention of the labouring poor was attempted to be diverted into another channel , and their understandings beguiled by offers of non-freehold leases for sixty years of land , itself lifehold , on something smaller ground rents ;
and subsequently , to render all clear to the humblest capacity , the leases in Biackwood haTe been uniformly granted for three lives , and for such a term of years on the decease of the last of the three lives as vvill render it equivalent to a grant for uinety-nine years ; and the earlier lessees have the option of having their leases conformed thereto , that all may be upon the same footing . The leases granted in the two more recently
rounded villages have all been for lives , renewable for ever on payment of five shillings on each decease . The site of the three villages combines as great a portion of the necessary and useful , as well as of the picturesque and beautiful , as is ordinarily to be inet with . Each village has a railway or tram-road through its centre , communicating between certain of the great irou-works and collieries of the neighbourhood and the shipping-places at Newport and Pellffwenlly .
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286 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1829, page 286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2571/page/62/
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