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&nd understanding might prove to him to be false . In a case like this , the worse the style the better for the truth ; so that we are far from lamenting that the work Ls nearly unreadable .
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Art . V . —Remarks on the Revival of Miraculous Persons in the Church . By the Hon aud Rev . Baptist Noel , M . A . This is a somewhat deceptive title , the natural import of it being , that the author admits the revival , has some observations to offer in relation to it , while he argues , however , on the other side . He discovers much leniency towards the
abettors of the said miracles , whom he is willing to admit to be pious , though misled . Reasoning on the opinion that supernatural powers have been withdrawn in consequence of a decay of Christian excellence , and a disbelief in their perpetuity , our author well observes , speaking of " men iu all ages eminent for faith and zeal , " &c ,
" They were diligeut students of Scripture ; they drew their views of truth immediately from the fountains of inspiration ; they meditated profoundly ; they had much simplicity of dependance on the teaching of God ; they earnestly prayed for his guidance . In other truths
they were guided by him ; and here with most marvellous unanimity , with most undoubting belief they erred , if indeed they erred . But it is impossible to believe it . If a few excellent persons in our days have imagined themselves to have discovered that the universal church
has been for some centuries in error , I hope 1 shall not be thought arrogant if 1 consider still the universal church to be in this matter right , and them to be , though honestly , in the wrong . "—P . 20 . Those who examine into the evidence for the alleged departures from the course of nature , cannot but perceive how deficient it is in comparison with the proofs that are furnished of the Scripture miracles .
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GENERAL LITERATURE . Art . VI . —Newspapers of Paris . ( Translated from the Revue Encyclop £ - dique . ) The present is the age of change ; revolutions take place , and events follow each other , with a rapidity unknown to the generations that preceded us j poli-
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tical revolutions , which iu former times occurred only at intervals of long ages , pass before us , are heaped up behind us , and scarcely has history time to chronicle them for those who are to replace us . At such a period , long and arduous works and profound meditations must be
renounced . Whilst we are slowly preparing a work upon some subject which we believe to be uew , the people are advancing ; and when we give them the fruits of laborious study , they have passed us , and have forgotten the subject which has occupied us during twenty years . Our bold truths , and recent discoveries , are to them common-places and old
sayings . When we arrive at this point of civilization , the most learned nations produce but few books ; they are both too long to write or to read ; and newspapers
replace them — newspapers , those little morning and evening libraries , which contain everything—philosophy , fine arts , science , legislation ; which always come at the same hour , and bring us materials for thinking , attend to our interests , and know how to be the echoes and the
flatterers of our passions . Thus those nations who have most advanced in that progressive improvement to which the world seems destined , the people whose political and commercial state most approaches perfection , will be found to publish the fewest books and the most periodicals . In England , great works are written only for the Aristocracy ; and in the Uuited States , bookmaking scarcely exists ; they print nothing but novels and treatises on the
sciences . We may instance France on the one side , and Spain , Italy , and Germany , ou the opposite , in proof of this fact . Under the old monarchy there were but one or two newspapers , and those almost entirely literary . The revolution brought forth many , but they all bore
\ he stamp of the time . They were political pamphlets , ardent , impassioned , even sanguinary ; energy and passion held the place of talent , personality supplied that of argument , and furious party spirit replaced discussion . We here * peak of the general character of the press ; many publications , however , deserved to be excepted .
The empire and its weighty censorship stifled daily discussion . The journals were then nothing more than bulletins of the victories , the travels and works of the Sovereign ; a few harmless literary disputes occasionally enlivened their pages ; and this was all the scope
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Critical Notices . —•* Miscellaneous . 397
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/37/
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