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    prehensive watchfulness , through fear of their revealment . He had pride and humility ; he was inflated -with the consciousness of craftypower ; but he could cringe to the power that mastered him . He was social and selfish ; he loved society , and seemed to enjoy sympathy ; but perhaps his ministry to that was the veriest selfishness , for selfgratification , in some form or other , was the alpha and omega of all his actions . He was industrious and idle ; possessed a restless activity that kept him ever originating something , but , with an inaptitude for regular and continued labour , he in reality did nothing . 4 Perhaps a perfect anatomy of his character none could bear , but those familiar with the disgusting details of the moral dissectingroom ; who know what humanity is , what it may be made , and how it is made what it often becomes ; who love it too well in its beauty , not to pity it in its debasement .

    4 While almost every one regarded Malfort as a being of the blandest and most unselfish benevolence , living and acting for and with his fellow-creatures , he was in fact a creature of the meanest and most selfish motives , preying on and perverting all he approached . He professedly squared the rule of right and wrong by the advantage or disadvantage to society ; on this comprehensive principle he could allow himself to do individual mischief , under pretence of producing collective benefit . His was one of those grand moral theories by which wholesale philosophers become retail rogues . '—p . 62—65 . vol . ii .

    Passages are scattered through these volumes which deserve quotation for their wisdom and their beauty ; we take almost at random the following on evil example and libertinism . 4 Evil example is like the incendiary ' s fire ; we may perceive where it has sprung , but cannot tell where it may spread . It is not those that sow the whirlwind that always reap the storm ; when the blast is once abroad it involves all , even the very straws that lie in its way . 'p . 109 . vol . i . * The libertine has all the brute ' s indifference , without the brute's excuse for it ; but he ensures a penalty that may well win him the pity of even those that most spurn him . In the hour of remorse—and if it never reaches him before , it does at the hour of death—he hears u a voice crying in the wilderness ; " it is the voice of abandoned childhood , left by reckless selfishness to the wolves of society !'—p . 87 . vol . ii .

    The application of a scriptural expression in the latter quotation appears to us to be marked by great felicity and ori ginality , and there is much beauty in the following reflection appended to a death-bed scene : 4 Philosophy may satisfy itself that vice arises from the inevitable * necessity of the wretched structure of society ; it knows too that every crime is pregnant with its own punishment ; and , revolting at the idea of an eternity of torment , as the decree of a just and benevolent God against a being whose duration of error has been , comparatively , but as an instant , it can consign the wicked unto death , and trust there may be , for them , no resurrection ,. But with those that have sinned little ,

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    Character ; or , Jew and Gentite . 547

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1833, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2620/page/35/