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bettered . It is a moral necessity . It is a political necessity * Philosophers and Legislators feel that it must be , as well as religionists . Caleb . But they would accomplish it in a different way . Ebion Adamson .
Many means must combine . And they will combine harmoniously as the object is understood and desired . Thanks to those who have defined that object , " the amelioration of the condition , moral , physical , and intellectual , of the most numerous and poorest class . " , .
Caleb . What ! at your St . Simonism again ? You have a strange liking for that heresy . v tEmoN Adamson . There is nothing heretical in that article of their faith . If there be , it is the heresy of Jesus of Nazareth . Their theology may be vague hypothesis ; their organization may be an intolerable despotism ; but they do know how society has existed , and why it should exist . That is also to know how it must exist .
Barnabas . I will believe their prophecies so far . as they accord with those which we have received from a higher inspiration . But I was going just now to say that it seems to me that humbler agents than such as you described , might very well commence the Domestic Mission , and prepare the way for men of higher talents , who may afterwards organize , consolidate , and extend the plan . Ebion Adamson .
Should the most qualified agents not offer themselves , the work ought rather to begin with the ' next best than be postponed . At any rate , let it but begin . Its commencement will be the clearing a : way of a cloud from our spiritual horizon . ElHanan . Probably the work itself , if it can only at first be attempted in a partial and limited way , will yet develop the appropriate qualities in the persons engaged in it , and forni men who shall be all that is wanted ; but whose capability of becoming so , could not otherwise have been ascertained .
Cal £ b . We shall soon be interrupted by the orthodox . The bigots will never let us alone .
Barnabas . They may return you that compliment , Caleb . You seldom let them alone .
Caleb . Nor will I , till they mend their ways . Look at these Bible Society proceedings . ! Barnabas . I look at them with pleasure . The great majority of the Society have nobly vindicated the integrity of their constitution , preserved the truly Catholic principle on which it is founded , and shewn an honest and generous impatience of the calumnies wtuch were poured forth against their fellow-Christians . Cae £ b . No , not their feUow-christians . ' The most liberal of their liberals did
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482 Ebion Adamson and his Friends .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 482, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/50/
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