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    found that schools there must be ; and Bell was set up because Lancaster could not be put down . As their people roust have the article , their leaders would rather have the providing of it themselves .

    Barnabas . And what is the precise good to be accomplished by this multiplication of newspapers ? Ebton Adamson . The promotion of knowledge ; and in the long run , and no very long run either , knowledge is virtue . Barnabas . ' I see the right and yet the wrong pursue . "

    Ebion A damson : A false fact . Those who pursue the wrong have no sight , scarcely an owl ' s blink of the right .

    Caj . eb . Do not many of the boroughmongers " see the right" of the people to be represented , and yet pursue the wrong" of making the nomination of representatives their own private property ? Ebion A damson .

    Yes ; that is the owl ' s blink I spoke of ; but if their vision were clearer , they would see the real right of the case beyond that ; they would perceive that the relinquishment of their usurpation and robbery would not only do good to others , but to themselves ; would make them better and happier men all their lives , and give them experience of the principle that ** true self-love and social are the same . "

    Elhanan . You are just come round to your favourite definition , that virtue is the means of happiness . Ebion A damson . Which is the first principle of my moral science . If the preachers and teachers of " ri g ht" had adhered to it , there would have been much less talk about knowing the right and doing the wrong than there has been . Barnabas . But will not the flesh always strive against the spirit ?

    Ebion Adamson . Not so very much , when the spirit knows what it is about . The flesh has no objection to happiness , and will trust the spirit ' s guidance when the spirit proves itself to be trustworthy . Barnabas . Your language would shock the original sinners . Ebion Adamson . Not more than theirs would shock me , had I not given over being shocked . What can be more preposterous than the question once put to a

    student in an orthodox college by a visiting minister , whether he was willing to be eternally damned for the divine glory ?" Elhanan .

    Many of the American divines , such as Hopkins and Bellamy , would , 1 suppose , have answered in the affirmative without hesitation . Ebion Adamson . The absurdity grows out of a departure from my definition , as you call it .

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    27 S Ebton Adamson and his Friends .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/60/