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wages . No personlias inculcated this truth with greater earnestness and perseverance , or in a manner more likely to impress it upon the minds of those who are most directly interested in it , than Junius Redivivus . And there is nothing by which he is more honourably distinguished , both from the demagogue , and
from the more ignorant or narrow-minded of the radicals . This is one of the most striking instances of the remark we made , that
his truths are seldom half-truths . A perception of the abuses of existing Governments without a sense of the dependence of wages on a limitation of the number of labourers , has led many into grievous errors : so has a perception of the latter half-truth without the former : but let a man once openly perceive and understand bothy and his aberrations in political opinion are by that
sole fact restrained within comparatively narrow limits . 4 ^) ur a uthor is a rad ical , because he is convinced both from principle and from history , that is both from the experience of
men and of nations , that ^ ower , without accountability to those f over whom , and for whose benefit it is to be exercised , is for the most part a source of oppression to them , and of moral corruption to those in whom the power resides . On the same principle we are radicals also : not that we consider the above proposition
to be true without exception : nor do we in any case look upon it as embracing the whole of what ought to be taken into consideration in forming our practical conclusions : but we hold it to contain as much of the truth , as is amply sufficient to prove all institutions worthless , which like most of those which now exist ,
aie constructed in utter defiance , or entire negligence of it . ^ For the details of our author ' s political opinions , and his applications of them to the existing state of society in England , we
refer our readers to ' The Producing Man ' s Companion / which has been revised and greatly enlarged in this second edition . We
shall make no extracts , because , to convey any but a most partial view of the contents of the volume , would require more copious citations than our space admits of , and because so interesting , and so cheap , and portable a work , should be in the hands of every
one whom words of ours can influence . A connected or systematic treatise we cannot call it : the wonder is , how with so little apparent order or concatenation in his ideas , the author has
contrived always to think consistently with himself . The book is like those kinds of living creatures which have joints , but no limbs : no reason can be given why the animals , or wh y the book , should not be twice as long ; why the writer stopped when he did , or wh y he did not stop sooner . But all his opinions are so nicely adjusted to one another ; they seem mutually to receive and give so exactly the proper , and none but the proper modifications ; that in
his own mind it is clpar his ideas are in their right places , though when poured out up ^ n paper they defy the very notion of arrangement , and lie one U j bpn another in a kind of neap . This would be disagreeable if thSt-book were very long , but being short , and
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268 Writings of Junius Redivivus .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/52/
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