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vestments : they will be presented in one vast , living group . It is evidently impossible to anticipate its magnitude and beauty ; but we may predicate what some of its elements will be . The scenery will consist of all that is fairest in the visible frame of the universe , presented in essential and not material beauty , — 'forests , lawns , girdling mountains , and the illimitable ocean , bathed in an atmosphere of warmth and fragrance , and enveloped in an ether of light . All of the human race who have ministered to the spirit ,
however separated here by time or space , will be there assembled ; patriarchs will be encamped among the pastures , and the chosen people in the wilderness : savage nations may bend before the lights of heaven , and our own kindred and friends compass us round . The Athenian sage may be seen instructing his pupils to listen to the harmonies of nature , while his own attentive ear catches faint echoes of a voice , unheard by all besides , rising above those harmonies to interpret them to listening souls . In the midst is He who points out to the universal race the approach to that presiding Presence which has created , sanctified , and immortalized this spiritual
. If the past should live again in some such mode as the imagination can only faintly shadow forth , it will be , strictly speaking , by a revivification and not by recollection : and for purposes totally different from those which we vainly hope to fulfil by mourning over irremediable evils , whether
natural or moral , or by traversing again the field of experience where we have already reaped all the produce which the season will yield . While time is the measure of our life , and vigour its noblest attribute , any habit by which the one is wasted and the other enervated , must be irreconcileable with our destination , and incompatible with our lasting peace .
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Io Triumphe , let Humanity be proud and joyous ! The Lord hath triumphed gloriously ; for if ever there has been a " battle of the Lord , " a conflict of armed men with deadly weapons , in which we might believe that his own spirit fired the hearts and strung the sinews of the combatants , such was that which was fought and won in the streets of Paris . War we hold to be but another name for a mass of complicated crime . The military
profession has nothing to do , that we can see , with the Christian profession . But if ever man may righteously shed man's blood , it must be in repelling by force , such force as that by which the infatuated Charles X . attempted to crush the French nation beneath his footstool . His hired agents , whose lives were the forfeit , might think they were only doing their military duty . If they were right in that , it only shews what a black sin against mankind
military duty may become in some circumstances . They were his instruments for the commission of a crime so foul that if life might not be taken to prevent the completion of its perpetration , much less should it ever be for the most unprovoked and premeditated murder that the annals of justice have ever recorded , or that can be devised by the imagination . But for reliance upon armed hirelings , the attempt to supersede the government of law by that of individual will could never have been made at all . We
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/36/
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