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the power of freely choosing their future representatives . If the Church be not reformed this year , it may be reformed next year . If only half measures of economy be adopted now , & more rigid revision may be instituted hereafter . But if the reformers in parliament let slip the opportunity of
confirming for ever the full measure of that popular ascendency which has been gained , and securing the freedom of election against all base influences , the probability is that they may long wait for so good an opportunity . Our charity is hard pushed by those who strenuously counsel the postponement of constitutional reforms to economical reforms . The latter are each a good ; the
former are the power of good . By first making sure of the power we may do at leisure all the good we please ; by neglecting that , we may partially achieve some modicum of good , and pay dearly for it afterwards by the visitation of a revived corruption , which we have wilfully made ourselves less able to cope with than we now are , and might have continued to be . The writer thinks
worse , if any thing , of the aristocracy than we do . He describes a spirit in the country determined to prevent the freedom of voting . He believes it capable of inquisitorial proceedings , of the violation of confidence , and the employment of spies , and of the application of every species of torture except that which is technically termed so , in order to control or corrupt a sufficient
portion of the people for the accomplishment of its own purposes . Now is the time , then , during this first reformed Parliament , to take the most efficient measures , that the people may not hereafter be either controlled or corrupted . That was a shrewd fellow who , when the fairies promised him the realization of three wishes , though he wanted both a pudding and a purse , made his first wish that ail his wishes might for ever after be realized .
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84 The Edinburgh Review and the Ballot .
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ON THE LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WRITINGS OF DR . PRIESTLEY .
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Continued from p . 30 . If any one were to put forth the prospectus of a Cyclopaedia , proposing to write all the articles himself , he would be set down for a genius or a madman . His admirers would think him the wonder of the world ; his opponents would cry out upon him as a shallow pretender . To the discerning , the conception of such a
design would disclose the true character of his mind . To imagine the outline , and glance even rapidly from the Alpha to the Omega of human attainments , implies no ordinary power ; to look over the wide continent of knowledge , and see it mapped out in all its bearings , and trace the great skeleton truths , which form its mountain barriers , and follow the streams of beauty that wind below tb ? ir l ^ as ? , b the prerogative of none but the comprehen-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1833, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2608/page/12/
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