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much to lament ; where many public errors exist , both as to sentiment and to practice ; where inconveniences and evils flow from the mistakes of former generations , and even from our long possession of a certain body of Jaws ; yet where these evils are mixed with countervailing advantages ; where order is admirably combined with liberty ; where abuses can be temperately corrected , and prosperity gradually restored and heightened , and all the grand interests of man , with the instrumentality of man , be perfectly ensured . That constitution is perhaps the best which , while it protects every one , gives every one an opportunity of meliorating his external circumstances , and interferes as little as possible in any—particularly in a direct—way with personal comfort and independence , with domestic man- * ners and arrangements . We have thus ascertained that in all the periods of British History , British Freedom has been guarded and even made advances : its progress may
not apparently have been uniform ; yet still it has been , in reality , accelerated . * If it may seem to have been particularl y extended during the late
reign , we must remember that the causes of this effect were already in operation , and that the liberal and tolerant , the wise and promising measures , at which I glance , could not have existed unless the enlightened portion of the public mind had been mature for such improvements . These measures—these improvements—the faithful historian will record *
He will do justice to the excellencies of the regal character of the departed monarch , and be neither a calumniator nor a sycophant : as he will not extenuate , so he will not put down any thing in malice . His office has what I may call a posthumous j urisdiction over both the public and the private lives of sovereigns : and British subjects can least of all be uninterested in the personal habits of British princes , and in the manners of the court .
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Essay on the proper Use of the Prospective Faculty . 669
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II . " Reaching forth unto those things which are before . " The perfect adaptation of the external and internal world to each other affords an evidence to which no one can be blind , that a perpetual reciprocation of influences is the ^ purpose which t hey are designed to fulfil . It is not more certain that the materials afforded by nature are those by which the immortal spirit is to be built up , than that the stirring soul is to exert a reciprocal action upon those outward things which minister pleasure and pain to itself and others . Our recognition of the existence of any substance is coincident with our reception of influence from it ; and it is a condition of happiness that a reciprocation , as certain , though sometimes less immediate , should take place between the faculties of the mind and the external objects on which their activity is to be employed . A faculty which moves without producing any result , no more fulfils its general purpose than a sunbeam darted on the eyes of the blind- It is made for action ; and exercise
* Some proceedings that arose , in 1610 , 1612 , out of the frequency of regal proclamations were very memorable .
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ESSiUT ON THE PROPER USE OF THE PROSPECTIVE FACULTY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 669, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/13/
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