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mical alterations are generally made to operate first , as we have seen in the case o ( the pensions which , were taken away from the members of the Literary Fund ,, granted by the fourth George , while large annual sums were continued for far less creditable purposes . It is not that the people at large are disposed to be mean , but that
they have a disposition to resist chicanery ; that they do not like to , be imposed upon ; and a considerable interval of good and honest government must elapse , before a healthy confidence will be generated , before they will conceive it possible , that taxes may be collected from them , and then applied only to purposes importantly connected with the welfare of the whole nation . They
have seen so many promising public works and plans degenerate into mere jobs for the benefit of individuals , that they cannot yet believe in the possibility of such things being executed in good faith , or for the profit of the community . Only through the perfect responsibility of the rulers , can confidence be made to exist between them and the people they rule over . Every wise and
benevolent man most earnestly desires that such a conclusion may be brought to bear as speedily as possible , in order to put an end to the tedious and revolting discussions of party politics , by which human advancement is retarded , both in physical comfort , moral worth , and the embellishments of knowledge , which might be made to add so largely tQ the stock of human happiness .
If the enjoyment of human life were made to consist only in animal sense—eating , drinking , sleeping , and the propagation of the species—such a Sardanapalian system might be arranged with but little difficulty , and without the necessity of very intellectual managers ; but the day for such coarse enjoyments is passing away , and in the boundless sources of pleasure , which the intense energy
of the human mind is opening to us , the pleasures of sense are regarded rather as matters of necessity , than of enjoyment . The people at large are becoming capable of intellectual pleasures of a high class , and they need intellectual rulers , in order that all external things on which physical comfort depends , shall be made to conform to the altered condition of their minds . It is grievous to
think how much money has been unprofitably wasted in wars , which might have been usefully employed to enlarge the sphere of human knowledge , in innumerable branches , which might have been eternally profitable to the human race . Instead of the great intellects of the world wasting their energies in desultory labours , in many
cases ^ profitable , for want of assistance , and in others deprived oif the results by ^ he necessity of toiling for the supply of coarse food , necessary for maintaining a bare existence , —instead of this , the united endeavours of many might have been concentrated , to produce a g igantic effect in knowledge and learning , just as artists and men of science have combined to produce changes in the physical world , such as iq former days would have been pronounced the work of magic . When the extension of knowledge
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882 Proposal fox a National College of Language .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/22/
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