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forward , I shall take much fewer rambling excursions from tjie main road , although I may leap over hills and dales , rivers and seas in my course . There I did not , I could not continue long : of my abstraction of myself , and some character-fixing incidents previous to it , I shall speak in the next chapter .
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French Laws of Succession . 339
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[ From the Commonplace-Book of an Invalid . } Frknch laws op succession—General objections thereto considered—Vain attempts of Louis XVIII . and Charles X . materially to alter them—Present state of the laws of succession—Different in America and England—Objection to the French laws stated—How answered—Striking * testimonies to the effects of the laws of sue * cession—Civil and religions liberty , with universal education , the palladium of state *
In England , where , as has been forcibly and too truly said , * aristocracy has but one child , * the laws of succession in France have been generally and indiscriminately condemned . * By these laws / it is objected * a man is unjustly prevented from disposing of his property as he chooses / and yet , say the French in reply , it is only when he chooses to dispose of it in violation of the ties of natural affection and common justice , that the Jaws of
France would interfere to prevent him . ' * Is it just / demand the advocates for these laws , ' that the eldest son should be splendidly provided for , and be enabled to live and riot in luxury and wealth , whilst his brothers and sisters are reduced to comparative beggary ? Up to the period of the parent ' s decease , all are alike inmates of the paternal mansion , all partake of , and are familiarized with , a style of living and expense proportioned to the income of their father . At his death , all but the eldest child become intruders
in the house of their ancestors , are maintained by their brother there in a state of dependence , or , banished thence , are forced to seek the means of a scanty and precarious livelihood , where , and how they can . If there is a living in the family , one of the brothers is destined for the Church ; this may prove a provision for a younger child , but may it not be asked , is it such a provision as the laws of God and the genuine principles of the
Christian religion approve ? Should the motive for entering on the holy task of teaching the religion of him , who pointedly reproved the worldly-mindedness and ambition of some of his disciples , be or partake of any thing worldly ? In addition to the Church , provision for younger children is usually looked for in the army , the navy , and in the public offices of the state ; but besides the questionable lawfulness of professing Christians , undertaking war and bloodshed as a trade , and the at least doubtful justifiableness , of
one man killing another , who has never personally offended him , at the command of a third person / say the defenders of the French laws , 4 promotion in either comes but tardily , the lower grades in the two first are more expensive than remunerating , and
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NOTICES OF FRANCE . —No . 6 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/51/
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