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Elhanan . - Utopia come again . What motives are to impel men to this ? Ebion Adamson . The pursuit of their own happiness . A sufficient motive surely . Theophilus . And not , then , obedience or submission to the will of God ? Ebion Adamson . Is not the will of God the happiness of his creatures ? Theophilus . Ultimately it is . But it often involves much present suffering and selfdenial . Ebion Adamson . Yet the better we understand his will and our own happiness , the more we perceive their identity . To ascertain what produces the greatest amount of human happiness , individual and collective , present and future , is infallibly to ascertain the will of God .
Elhanan . Hence it is that you argue for the inclusion of politics in religion . Ebion Adamson . Certainly . The happiness of the people of England , at the present time , is probably far more diminished by open voting , with its consequences , of oppression , falsehood , demoralization , and selfish legislation , than it is by all the direct thievery and lying in the country . Philo . But you have no apostolic precept . Ebion Adamson . Nor have you apostolic sanction for your canons of criticism and rules of interpretation ; and for the same reason—biblical criticism and representative government were both of later growth . Elhanan . You might find a text too ; though you must still deal with it only by way of inference : " Love worketh no ill to his neighbour . " Ebion Adamson . And as I incline to Mr . Cappe ' s opinion , that all doctrines are doctrines of inference , 1 should not think the worse of a precept for being in the same predicament . Caleb . Are the Simonites prospering ?
Ebion Adamson . Very much . Their public orations on Sundays , and their meetings for instruction on other days , are regularly announced in Le Globe , wliicji has now become their avowed and official paper . The list is almost as long as that of the theatrical representations . Theophilus . I fear almost as vain . The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom ., Elhanan . The beginning ; but perfect love casteth out fear ; and what if these clever lads jump at once into the fifth form of the Great Master ' s school ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/51/
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