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Almighty jkrwer arjd infinite wisdom , without attempting to contravene the laws of nature by the iifapoteht arm of human legislation . * Thai the French laws of succession afford to the weaker classes of society assurance of protection in the enjoyment of their property in an eminent degree , and therefore hold out
encouragement to acquire it , cannot be doubted ; and Mr . Malthus himself Bays , in a late edition of his wor \ c on population , Of all the causes which tend to encourage prudential habits among the lower classes of society , the most essential is unquestionably civil liberty . No people can be much accustomed to form plans for the future , who do not feel assured that their industrious exertions , while fair
and honourable , will be allowed to have free scope ; and that the property which they possess , br may acquire , will be secured to them by a known code of just laws impartially administered . But it has been found by experience , that civil liberty cannot be permanently secured without political liberty . Consequently political liberty becomes almost equally essential ; and , in addition to its
being necessary in this point of view , its obvious tendency is to teach the lower classes of society to respect themselves , by obliging the higher classes to respect them , must contribute greatly to all the good effects of civil liberty . * f If to civil , political , and religious liberty , be added a wise and liberal system of universal education , society will have discharged some of the duties it has
! so long neglected , and mankind will be no longer wantonly or wickedly defrauded of the enjoyment of that portion of rational happiness and means of further improvement in knowledge and virtue , which the benevolent Author of our being in his infinite wisdom and goodness , tmquestioriably intended for man in this stage of his existence . Tne fallacy of the exclamations against
the over-population of the present clay will then be practically proved ; all mankind will be convinced From experience , that in the vocabulary of nations population ought to stand for wealth , and the paramount object of every sane person in society will be the promotion of the greatest possible happiness to the greatest possible number .
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French Lb&i 6 f Succession . 347
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My dear Sir , —There has certainly been , as you state , a withdrawhient of support , by Unitarians , fVom the Monthly Repository \ which , though its tendency be arpply counteracted by the rapid growth of pnhlic encoliffcgement ; yet requires some notice from me on account of the eircumit&hces Under which it hai occurred . * Hititory and Topography of the United States , chap , on population , vol . ii . p . 307 . f PxiacipteB bf Political Economy , c . iv . too . 2 .
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A LETTER TO THE REV . > —r— , UOTTARIAN JtlNISTER OF , FROM ± H £ EDITOR OF THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1833, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2614/page/59/
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