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lessons and verbal practice are by too many considered illustrations , evidence of moral goodness , and efficient guards against the growth of ill-will , selfishness ^ and indifference to others . A silent example , an unconsidered action , even though affection prompts that action , is very often productive of an enduring
mischief that will counteract all the purposed utility , or momentary influence of verbal precept . The teacher , perhaps , is innocent of the mischief ; innocent , certainly , in so far as the intention is considered . The evil grows out of the teacher ' s ignorance , or , more gently to speak , want of reflection . I have seen parents
of the most affectionate and benevolent dispositions , in their very solicitude for their children ' s comforts , even in their anxiety for their moral well-being , sow the seeds of future crime . We all know what sort of thing a good child' usually is ; how the child is made * good we know . P . V .
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An Independent in Church and Slate . 777
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AN INDEPENDENT IN CHURCH AND STATE . *
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Of all the ' signs of the titties / not one is more hopeful than the quantity and quality of intelligence which is developing itself amongst the ' producing classes' * of the community . It must needs be , that r those who think , will govern those who toil , ' but much
oppression will infallibly result from this arrangement until the union be effected of 'those who think / and ' those who toir in the same persons . We shall then arrive at the most desirable of all political consummations , a self-governed community . Ignorant labour is sure to be kept on short allowance . The trite moral of the story of Samson loses , in its triteness , neither its truth
nor its applicability ; his blind strength only availed to grind in the mill of the Philistine lords , and to pull down the temple on their heads . And so it ever is . If a bandage be the crest , the motto can be none other than ' slavery or vengeance ? The apprehension of such an alternation may be some check upon the selfishness of f those who think / but so long as they are a separate
class , they must be under stronger temptations to think / or themselves than humanity ought to be exposed to . If they be philanthropists , there is nothing they will more earnestly covet , than to be out of such temptation . They will see how intimately the diffusion of enjoyment is connected with the diffusion of
intelligence . Any way , therefore , that the toilers should become thinkers , is the heart ' s desire of all good men . The desire is becoming realized faster than could possibly have been anticipated . Here is a symptom of the progress , in the little book now before us . The threepenny tract , whose title we have just given , is the production of a poor Irishman , byname Francis Ross , ajourney-* The Examination of an Independent in Chinch and Stute . Dublin , Youn £ and Cunningham ; London , Entingh&m Wilbvn .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 777, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/45/
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