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CoftiittGhs ; bttt"he can hardly be in a suitable frame of mind for sceihg and feeling this , "while he is smarting tinder the sense of hardship &ftd Wrong from other ttieri . Nor is this the worst ; for the l&ws of a country , to a gre&t degree , make its morals . ^ Power , and whatever confers powet , have been in all ages the great objects
df the adttiiratiori of mankind : the most obvious kind of power tb common apprehension , is power in the state ; and ekctoi-ding aa that is obtained by rank , court favour > riches , talfeftts , or virtues , the favourable sentiments of mankind will attach themselves * and their ambition will be directed to one or another of these attributes . Tlato expected no great improvement in the lot of humanity , until philosophers were kings ,, or kings philosophers x without indul g ing so romantic & wish , we believe that in the ritatiy
there will belittle of the requisite culture of the internal nature , and therefore little increase even of oCitward enjoyments ; ilntil institutions are so framed , that the ascendency over the minds of men , which naturally accompanies the supreme direction of their worldly affairs , shall be exercised , We do not say by philosophers , but at the least by honest men , and men who With adequate practical talents combine the highest appreciation of speculative wisdom . ^
In politics , Junius Redivivus is a radical . But since there are various kinds of radicals , it is fitting to state to which variety of the species our author belongs . Some men ( it has been well said ) are radicals , only because they are not lords : this will not suit our author ; who , it is evident , would scorn equally to accept or to submit to , irresponsible or unearned superiority . Others
are radicals , because they are of a fretful and complainitig disposition , and accustomed to think present evils worse than any future contingent ones : such men in the United States would be aristocrats ; be the order of things what it may , it must have sohig faults peculiarly its own , and those faults in the estimation ofsueff people ensure Us condemnation : neither is our author one of these . He is full of that spirit of love , which suffers little besides
loveliness to be visible where loveliness is , and which boils up , and explodes in indignation only when heated by the contact of evil unmixed or predominant . Bven iti a semi-barbarous people , like those of Spanish America , he finds ample * food for admiration and sympathy ; in the r Tale of Tucuman , ' atid elsewhere , he dwells with peculiar complacency upon whatever those nations afford of beautiful or noble . Others again are radicals , merely
because the taxes are too high : they cfcrt conceive of no evil except poverty , and finding themselves poor , dr seeing that theit neighbours are so , think it is the fault of the Government ( bt hindering them from being rich ; not so our author : he sees that there is a cause independent of Government , which makes the majority poor , and keeps them so , where it is not counteracted eitner by natural or artificial checks ; this is , the tendency Of pcMpulation to a more rapid increase than is compatible with high
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tPritingi of Junius Redivitous * £ 67
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/51/
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