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may never lose the Christian spirit , whatever their unkind and unjust conduct to us . And such a service , with all the means to make it impressive which a rich establishment possesses , Dissenters as we are . we would often stroll to hear .
Then let the pealing organ blow To the full voic'd choir below , In service high and anthem clear , As may with sweetness through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies , And bring all heaven before mine eyes . Norton .
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On the Morality of Authors . 305
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Looking round upon the whole race of human beings , whether male or female , it would be scarcely possible to find a single one altogether devoid of ambition ; and but for this principle , it is probable that the progressive improvement of the mass of mankind , which , has been going on from the earliest ages , would be entirely put a stop to . We see this evidenced in the case of many savage tribes , as the Greenlanders and the Hottentots , and also
amongst more civilized people , as the agricultural Hollanders , the peasantry of Spain and Portugal , and the German descendants in the back parts of Pennsylvania . Amongst all these people , the passion of ambition is of a very low species , being principally confined to securing a supply of material food , and some few coarse sensual enjoyments . Therefore , their pursuits and enjoyments
remain precisely the same which have been handed down to them from ancient times , and they feel no disposition to alter them . The Spaniards and Portuguese use at this day the same kind of agricultural implements which were invented for them by their old Roman masters , and if you remonstrate with a Dutchman , or a German Pennsylvanian , on the awkwardness of his farm-gear , he
will reply , * My father found it answer , and why should I change ?' But when nations , by whatever cause , acquire a love of distinction , a better kind of ambition arises . This ambition , whether well or ill guided , and in whatever way it may show itself , is neither more nor less than the love of power . If a man acquires the highest talent in making flutes or fiddles , or playing upon them , he does so , much more in consideration of the influence he
thereby acquires over the minds and purses of his fellows , than on account of any individual gratification he may receive , apart from the participation of others . In the state of almost universal commerce at present existing in the world , money has become an exchangeable commodity for almost all things which can be made articles of traffic , and therefore , money is in reality synonymous with power . It is an engine of command , and therefore allambi-
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ON THE MORALITY OF AUTHORS .
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No . 77 . Z
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/17/
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