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not know , or a father who was educated under an artificial system might do the same thing ; but we have prbof in the United States that he will not do it , under the operation of natural cpuscs . ' In France the case is very different ; the effects of artificial and
unnatural systems are not yet worn out ; and in a certain degree under Bonaparte ' s government , but in a much greater degree under those of Louis XVIII . and Charles X . alarming inroads were made in the new order of things . It should be recollected that France had an enormous evil to contend with in the
monopoly of wealth and power in the hands of a few—the genuine offspring of gross misgovernment—and its direful consequences , manifested in the oppression and impoverishment of the great body of the people , to remedy and guard against ; while in America great wealth was the portion only of a few , and its influence comparatively small . * In England also , where the extremes of enormous wealth and squalid poverty have been so long the
effects , if not the object , of radically faulty principles in the administration of the Government , which , notwithstanding , have fostered hosts of inveterate prejudices , it cannot be hoped that the evils of undue accumulation would be overcome without the strong and wise restrictive interference of the Legislature , until its injustice and impolicy become generally recognised . The leading political
objection to the French laws of succession is , That they promote and encourage increase of population beyond the means of adequate support . To this objection the following reply is offered . How essentially and influentially the deplorable state of the great mass of the people contributed to that necessary and glorious event , the French Revolution , cannot be doubted . Such events
never happen until all hope of the reformation of public abuses , and of bettering the condition of the people by peaceable means , has vanished . The sufferings of the people became intolerable ; they had been endured with surprising patience for centuries ; but accumulated wrongs , like the mighty waters of an obstructed deluge , will have their way at length , and if havock and destruction mark
their course , it ought to be no matter for wonder . If , in attempting to remedy the evils which had occasioned the Revolution , wisdom and prudence , moderation and discretion , did not invariably govern the measures of the actors in this , the grandest effort recorded in the page of history , to restore to man his rights and his happiness , it is no more , under the circumstances of concealed
* Curious and highly interesting is the involuntary testimony of certain prejudiced and therefor * hostile persons , in favour of the very truth they are seeking to conceal or invalidate . Thus Captain Basil Hall , in his voyage in the steam-boat from New York tip the Hudson river , is full of lamentation on the deplorable effects of the division of property in America—instancing the Livingstone manor , which formerly , l > e says , had only one great mansion on it , and included all the land for many miles on the shores of $ he Hudson , then almost exclusively covered with forests , but which now , haying been sold in parcels by its former proprietor , is converted into / if ty wtld * cultivated farmt , with handsome houses on them .
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French Laws of Succession . ' 343
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/55/
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