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And we rejoice to be assured by his son * still sitting on the Episcopal bench , that " no alterations or additions whatever have been admitted into the edition of 1820 , except the author ' s last verbal corrections . " Now , what advantage for the discovery of truth , which Cranmer
possessed , was not amply enjoyed by Law ? And did not many great inconveniences impede the researches of Cranmer in the sixteenth century , from which Law , in the eighteenth , was entirely free ? Why then should Englishmen prevent their church from going on to perfection ? Mr . Wilson has enriched his discourse
with many very interesting biographical and some ingenious critical observations . We only add , that the profits of the sale are designed to increase the comforts of the widow and the fatherless .
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Art . VI . —Jefferson ' s Memoirs and Correspondence . Vols . III . and IV . We have already remarked of the first and second volumes of this work , that they will be more acceptable to the historian than to the public : the same may be said of great part of the third , but not of the fourth . In the fourth we have the
venerable patriot himself in the foreground , and stripped of his armour ; he tells us that , in his old age , he is again a hard student ; that he rises with the sun , and never goes to bed without an hour , or half an hour ' s reading of " something moral whereon to ruminate in the intervals of sleep ; " that his digestion is as good as ever , and that he has not lost
a tooth . These little " egotisms ( as he is pleased to call them ) are duly intermingled with the topics of the day , with political and moral discussion , and with metaphysical speculation . <* In the bosom of my family , and surrounded by books , " says the writer to one of his friends , " I enjoy a repose to which I have been long a strauger . My mornings < iie devoted to correspondence . From breakfast to dinner , I am in my shops ,
my garden , or on . horseback among my farms ; from dinner to dark , I give to society and recreation with my neighbours and friends ; and from candle-light to early bed time I read . '' Tacitus ajnd Horace , he tells us in another place , afe again familiar to him , and hJU early pas ^ ^ iou for matberoajtici has returned , ' * With my neighbours , " says he , " \ talk of ploughs and harrows , seeding and harvesting , and of politics , too , if they
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choose it , with as little reserve as the rest of my fellow ^ citizens , and feel at length the blessing of being free to > say and do what I please , without beiug responsible for it to any mortal . "—Vol . IV . p . 145 . " Your puzzling letter , " says he to
another friend , " with its crowd of scep ^ ticisms , kept me from sleep . I read it , and laid it down again and again : aud to give rest to my mind , I was obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne . * 1 feel therefore 1 exist . ' I feel bodies which are not myself : there are other existences then . I call them
matter , I feel them changing place . This gives me motion . Where there is an ab » sence of matter , I call it void , or nothing ^ or immaterial space . *' — " I can conceive thought to be an action of a particular organization of matter , as well as that attraction is an action of matter , or magnetism of loadstone . When he who de *
nies to the Creator the power of endowing matter with the mode of action called thinking shall shew how he could endow the sun with the mode of action called at traction y which reins the planets iu the track of their orbits , or how au absence of matter can have a will , and by that will put matter into motion , the Materialist will be lawfully required to explain the process by which matter
exercises the faculty of thinking . " We have already noticed that iu the earlier part of Mr . Jefferson ' s career , his opinions were hostile to the claims of revelation ; in his subsequent correspondence with his intimate friends , he explains himself on this subject more fully , and with a
candour aud Tightness of mind which we cannot but respect , whatever we may think of his doctrine . " To the corruptions of Christianity , ' * saya he to Dr , Rush , " I am indeed opposed , but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself . I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be ; sincerely
attached to his doctrines in preference to all-others ; ascribing to himself every human excellence , and believing he never claimed any other . " " The free exercise of reason , " says he elsewhere , * ' is all I ask fqr the vindication of the character of Jesus . We Aud in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct
descriptions . First , a ground-work of vulgar ignorance , of things impossible , of superstitions , fanaticisms , and fabrications . Intermixed with these again arc sublime , ideaa of tfye Supreme Being , aphorisms and precepts of the purest morality and beuevoleuce , sanctioned by a life of humility , innocence , and simpli-
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Critical Notices . —Miscellaneous . 123
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GENERAL LITERATURE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/51/
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