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which is given him hy the plan of open voting , to make that dependent vote for his nominee , and who thereby degrades the voter , and gets a nominal representative returned to support the monopoly in which he is interested , commit all these three vices at once ; or at least cause them to be committed and multiplied ? Philo .
But the people to whom the Apostles preached had no popular elections , no political rights . Ebion Adamson . And therefore there are no direct precepts against such iniquities . But vice is not to escape the lash of religion merely by shifting into a new form . Now-a-days , it is chiefly in politics that we must do , or violate , our duty to our neighbour . If Christianity does not apply to these circumstances , it is an obsolete religion , and we had better look out for a new one .
PHILO . The Saint Simonian ? Ebion Adamson . Aye , the Saint Simonian , in that case . Though I take its disciples to be much better Christians than they themselves imagine .
Theophilus . Christians ? Why they ha . ve directly attacked Christianity ! Barnabas . But that has often been done by men who were disgusted with the corrupt form in which the gospel was exhibited to them , who yet would have loved and prized the reality . Theophilus .
Their notions of the Deity are no better than Pantheism ; they say the universe lives , and they call that God ; and their worship seems to be nothing more than the enjoyment of the fine arts . This would be a sad exchange for uniting with a congregation to worship the Father of Christ in spirit and in truth . Ebion Adamson . An exchange which I certainly have no thought of making . The theology of the Simonites does seem to be a very crude affair . They feel the necessity of some religion ; Catholicism has fallen in France , to rise no more ; and so they have put together an extempore theology , which is very unworthy of their intellects , for they have some of the best heads in France amongst them . Theophilus .
And the best hearts too ? Ebion Adamson . Not impossible ; but I was not thinking of their theological doctrine . Their views of history , the ways in which they trace the orderly progress of the human race , are , however , a noble commentary on the truth of a Providence ; and their social objects seem to me to be all one great application of the Christian principle of man's fraternity ; a practical exposition of the text , that " God made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face , of the earth . " They contemplate a social arrangement in which every man shall be placed according to his capacity , and rewarded according to his works . No one is to be idle ; no regard to be had to birth ; but each , according to the nature and degree of his powers , is to be employed in increasing the common means of enjoyment .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/50/
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