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    are so deeply interested . And the same spirit has stamped the highest wortn on other of her productions , especially on her three theological essays , in which the highest powers of her mind are better displayed than in any of her more widely circulated works . The clear perception of a principle , the careful and faithful evolvement from it , of ail its legitimate consequences , and the arrangement of those consequences , so that truth touches the heart , by

    its consistency , harmony , and beauty , may be seen in those essays so strikingly , as at once to determine the character of the author ' s mind . To what we have said , there only remains to add , an improveability which from the time of her first appearance as a writer has been rapid and continuous ; and which , with all her present talent and attainment , will , we trust , be long before it pauses or relaxes . These are her faculties , directed to purposes so high and beneficent , that the very circumstance of their direction is almost entitled to be classed as a peculiarity in their construction .

    Of course we deprecate the advice , as much as we dispute the description , given by the Edinburgh Reviewer . Fie would have Miss Martineau ' recede from her monthly contract , ' and by breaking the continuity enfeeble the effect of her periodical lessons . We would have her fulfil that mission in unimpaired singleness of purpose and exertion . We know she is equal to that , whatever may be thought of her attempting more . He wants her

    to pause , and reconsider portions of the science of which she is the professor ; that is to say , some of his politico-economical doctrines differ from those of the system which she has adopted- We know that she had diligently learned before she began to teach , and that the extent and accuracy of her information have only

    been disputed in a few trifling and incidental particulars , and in them not often successfully . He counsels her to l submit her writings to some dull friend / before their publication ; we beg of her only to let her dull friends see them afterwards , inasmuch as no friendliness can counteract the mischief of the dulness which ,

    first mistaking her character and powers , will also , in all probability , mistake the spirit of the times in which we live , and wish her to deal with a grown-up world , as if it were still in leadingstrings . He tells her , that genius ' cannot move by clock-work , ' and therefore she ought to publish irregularly ; we tell her that her well-trained intellect does move with the precision and punctuality of clock-work , and that she will only disturb it by applying

    his patent regulator for the springs of genius . Because she occasionally glances from political economy to the higher topics of social morality , and the condition and prospect of humankind , he treats her as an enthusiast , soaring into what he calls a ' visionary empyrean , ' and calls for the cancelling of all such passages . * We should heartily rejoice' in her further developing her opinions on matters of such deep concernment , little doubting that she would express them in words of truth and soberness / The critic , with

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    380 Poor Laws and Paupers .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/20/