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law ; and to ejspeet in the latter that system of , positive and arbitrary enactment ancj sa ^ qtjuo ri by which the former is characterizeil Vr Jfe ^ e has not learned that natural consequences declare and enforce the , Divine wlil a ? , to human actions ; that thu $ God judges mankind here ; anct that we may reasonably expect that the future / judgment will not be essentially different . ... .
The articles on the Study of the Law , and of Medicinp , a » d on the communication of scientific information in a tabular form , are eutitied to laudatory notice , and there is a very interesting Essay , translated from Goethe , on the Metamorphosis > of , Plants , ' -1 ' *• / 'M i / ^ ;• * ¦ ¦ - ; ¦ ' .
There has been some very sharp firing between the Edinburgh and JVestminster Reviews . The former commenced by an attack on Mr . Mill ' s Essay ou Government which was to demolish the Utilitariaus , aud we have had , in as rapid succession as quarterly publication would allow , the reply , the rejoinder , and the sur-rrioinder . The assailant seems to
have made more haste than good speed ; arid by the ardour of his attack , laid himsjelf open to thrusts which it was Impossible for him to parry , and which must gofar towards putting him hors de copfifrat , fewt the discussioti is not merely interesting as an intellectual joust . It involves the first principles of political
^ ud moral philosophy . Mr . Bentham apd his disciples say , that Utility ( in the largest and highest sense of the term , be it always observed ) is the rule of human action . This position indeed is Hot new . The same thing has often been said before . It is the doctrine of the clearest and ablest writers on moral
philosophy . It is the doctrine , as appears to us , of the New Testament , which makes " love the fulfilling of the law , and teaches us to secure our own happiness by labouring to promote that of othei-3 . And if this rule be taken away , we confess we know not where to look for another . Revelatiou is no
directory for particular actions ; and conscience can only decide according to its light , which often proves to be darkness . But Mr . Bentham ' s merit is not in the discovery of a new principle ; it is in the development of that principle , autj its consistent application to all the rar mifications and workings of social iugtitutions . This he has done with a rare industry and acytenesp ; and > o little . Jiad been doue before that , ! although ik $ principle itself m / ay be almost as old as
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the creation , we must regard lnm as having kindled up a new and brilliant li g ht in moral and political philosophy , and thereby gained for hiinselr * the glory of rankip'l amount the noblest benefactors oif bis specks , ^ e rejoice ,
therefore , in the successful vindication of his name and system , and regret tha » t either should have beeu assailed in a work which ha ^ s done much good , and will , . we trust , do much more in the fields ' of literature and politics . The ability of its new editor to wield the sceptre of the
abdicated c < Prince of Critics , " remains to be proved . The Westminster sustains the high character to which it has lately been raised , and is pre-eminent in . the richness and variety 6 f Its ; contents / the importance of its information , and the elevation of its tone , its utility , and its readability . ¦ . , ¦
The publication of the Aunuals has commenced , as it ought , with Acker , man ' s Forget Me Not , the first work of the kind , if we remember rightl y * which was brought out in this country * . Jts beauties shew no symptom of growing dim with age . So much of projnised splendour is to eoBQe that we * $ u £ t be chary of our superlatives ; but it will go hard with its competitors to surpass some of the enibeUisUments . cxfrthis vp >
lume , especially the engraving ptJ , TJnd \ ne from Retzseh , the illustrator . tof ^ liake " spear , and which is worthy of it ^ subject , the most graceful fiction , in ^ U * clas s , which modern times , hav ^ produce ^ . , There are two pieces in the Forget Me Not to which roaj&y wil ^ i tvirn witjii eager haste , even before th ^ y ^ Jlqok at
the pictures ; " but theywill nqt ., l ^\ ger long upon them . It is avowedly as cur riosities that they are introciwed ^ ? The one is the earliest copy , o $ < parses > , ( by courtesy ) + knowu to be ex ;^ aT > i , ^ , 'j ^ gn ' d Byron ' s , addrea ^ ed to '' ¦ My-- dpaf ^ Mwy Ann ; ' * the <> ther ; " Verses , M > fW bfi 4 iJn an Album , by Fvanc )^ Jio ffr ^ y . ' * , f , 4 ( t ifiv ^ t
we did not feel quite sqre ^ kichi ^ a ^ written worst , the greatest . of , ^ r upiQfff , or the greatest ; of our srfate §; - Jbifjt , we believe the poet has it . Owe * Jift ^ -wjade us think that the critic h ^ d ,, ^ jifried ftiction far beyond the bowij ^^ ry , pfi , t ))^ , verisimilitude which is required eviqii i # its wildest flights ; for he says
" Mine is the brow that never frowned . " But the limitation in the next line set the matter right : he ne ^ er frownied "On laughing lips or sparkling eyes -. "
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794 Monthly Report cf General Literature .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1829, page 794, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2578/page/50/
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