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oease to foe a matter of bargain j&nd sale . I speak not in pae r ? theory , Here and there , even under the present demoralising system , may be found exquisite specimens of beauty , &nd truth , and knowledge ,, and learning , and wisdom , and bigh-sople 4 coi ^ r rage , and exquisite feminine grace , and devoted affection , all
united in single individuals , who , by the fortunate combination of circumstances with fine physical organization , have escaped the general contamination . There exist realities , of what Scott has faintly shadowed forth in his Rebecca and Diana Vernon ; and as superior as the mind of the high philosopher U superior to that of the mere party politician . The pulse quickens , and the heart
beats high , while thinking of these things , while the imagination of excellence of a still higher class is conceived , and the sober judgment pronounces its possibility . Oh ! that the disabilities were removed which shut out women from the light , which make of her alternately a toy and a slave , when she might become a guiding star , to lead men onward in the path of wisdom and happiness !
But I profess to be a believer in the constant amelioration of human evils . Man has improved hitherto , and he will continue to improve , by a constantly accelerating process . It is the nature of every thing sublunary to improve , with the progress of know-r ledge—except the Whigs . As Napoleon said of the Bourbons ,
and which saying he might have applied to himself in his latter years , They have learnt nothing , and have forgotten nothing . ' That which they do of good is forced upon them by the people , and they act but as a clog upon the wheel of improvement , to impede its motion . Junius Rbdivivus .
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On the Life , Character , and Writings of Dr . Prfatley . 9 $ \
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Continued from p . 88 . *
Who can draw for us truly the boundary between the intellectual and the active part of human nature ? The faculties into which wise men distribute the mind , like the hemispheres into which geographers divide the earth , though definable enough in theory , are hard to discriminate in practice . Nothing clearer th * n the
equator upon a paper globe 5 and in our paper metaphysics ., nothing is easier of discovery than that Chap . vi . treats of one faculty , and Chap . vii . of another 5 but nature is far from being so obligingly distinct . We remember the days when , in our childish conceptions of crossing the line , a piece of graduated cord , belting the earth , was discernible ; and philosophy has perhaps been chargeable with a similar puerility of expectation in its progress from tke mental to the moral regions of the mind . They bland
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ON THE LIFE , CHARACTER , AND WRITINGS OF PR . PRIESTLEY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/15/
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