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    whatever is dull , of cherishing whatever is weak * of informing whatever \ m vacant in the mi ad of man , wherever our influence extends j and we know not that that influence has any bourjolary short of the limits- of the globe . We are told that the world has become one vast whispering gallery , and that the faintest accents of science are heard from the remotest regions of the earth . If this be- true of science , in which the multitude of every country have no interest * how much more true must it be of that which is better than ;

    science ; of that which already finds an echo in every bosom , and will ; in time , make a heralds of evei-y tongue ! The law of liberty is engraved on ; every beast , and conscience is its universal exponent : if the interpreter sleep , or if he mter . pnet unfeithfully , it is given to those who have the power , to rouse ; him from indolence and to expose his deceptions . We are bound to warn * to oppose , to disarm all who despise and break through this natural law ;; and , in behalf of the oppressed , to carry on against the oppressors a war which , admits neither peace nor truce .

    It is appointed to us to mark the movements of the universal human soul * to direct its powers , to controul its tendencies * to develop its capabilities , tax animate its ; exertions , while we present to it ample scope and adequate objects . If we see any portion of it cramped , blinded , and deadened ^ it is our part to remove the evil influence , or to resist if we cannot remove it . And > in what portion of the human race is mind more debased and intellect more stunted than ia the slaves of the West Indies ? Some are stilt inspired by a ;

    love of liberty ; some would stilly if they dared , sing * by the streams of their captivity , the songs of their own land ; some yefc retain sufficient sense of their rights to mutter deep curses against their tyrants , and to long for one moments freedom that they might dash his little ones against the stones : but * ipany are s » nk into a state of apathy more hopeless even than vice 9 a despair more painful than the tumult of revengeful passions . Such beings , advance a claim , upon us which we cannot resist . We are as much bound to

    interpose on their behalf as to afford bread to our dependants , and instruction to ; the children of our families . If they loudly call upon us for our alliance * we * cannot ifefose it ; . If tfeey do not , we must bend our ear to catch the faintest breathings of their complaint . If none such ape heard * the double duty devolves upon us of warring against the tyrant and arousing the slave to the eontest . The more insensible the slave , the stronger is the proof ojf his degradation ; the deeper the apathy which we have to dispel , the more

    withering naust have been the gripe of tyranny . This gripe must be loosened by ; the friendk of the slave , for the slave has himself no power , In this case , force must be opposed by force , and usurpation by authority ; brute force must be met by the might of reason ; and usurpation put down by the authority of justice . Knowledge is power , and wisdom confers authority ; and ' if we realty believe ( as we have often deliberately asserted ) , that , by the blessing of the universal Father , the highest knowledge and the purest wisdom have been placed , within pur reach , we must accept tfre office connected

    with their possession , and fulfil the conditions on which they are comj » uni ^ cated . In the primeval days , when the eartk shone in its newly created ! beauty , and the human race was in its infancy , God himself' vouchsafed t& be the visible guardian of his people . By visible signs , by audible coihrnu- * nion , he guided and warned and sustained them . In later tirties , he withdrew himself in part from the cognizance of the external senses , and sjJGk £ by prophets and righteous men . Now the eye sees him not , the ear hears him not , and nq external manifestations of his presence are gjven ; yet the eye of the mvnd hae been so far purified , the ear of the uflderstaiading may

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/7/