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man printer , who for lack of time or means , or of both perhaps , composes with the types , as did Thomas Jonathan VVooler in the days of the Black Dwarf , and prints from the fair copy in his brain . They be good brains , which by such a modus operandi produce useful matter . The aforesaid Thomas Jonathan did sometimes , in spite of his motto , run a muck , and so perhaps
might Francis Ross , if his typography were in weekly employment , but so he has not done in this tract , which is a capital compendium of the doctrine of civil and religious liberty . It is clear and sound , pithy and comprehensive ; no froth and stuff ; no verbiage and claptraps \ neither dry logic , nor bitter and bad feelings ; but a man , with a soul , telling out great principles in plain and forcible language . Were we poetical , we would indite an ode to him :
4 Rise , honest muse ! and sing the man of Ross . ' And yet that would seem as if we were chronicling a miracle , which is far from our meaning . This man is oneof many , as well as one of the many . There is the beauty of it . There is the evidence of human progression . There is the pledge of human improvement . There is the rainbow : and never mind the clouds . If the ' lower
orders , ' the yet unemancipated artisans , produce such men , a great reform must be at hand . And do they not ? Look at the poetry of Elliot , the ironmonger . There are strokes to make the fire fly . Listen to the lectures of Detrosier , the fustian-cutter . He cuts all fustian in them , and fills them with sense and science . Mark the industry and acuteness of Wade , the wool-comber . There is much to mark in the Black Book , ' and the * History of
the Middle and Working Classes / and to be inwardly digested too . Trace Samuel Downing , the cabinet-maker , in the Mechanic ' s Magazine . What delicacy , as well as power in his touch ! There will be much making and unmaking of cabinets ^ until intellects like these find their true position in the social system . They are all , and there are many more such , men of their class ; made so , ¦ m
_ ^ * - * • • • • * m by its being a repressed class ; and championing the rights and interests of the community in that class . Were the nation represented , their voices would be heard amongst those of peers and merchants . And the peers and merchants would be none the worse for it , provided they have taken shares in the great joint stock of human happiness .
But we must return to Frank Ross , and introduce him to our readers . He shall introduce himself . He thus prefaces : * The great principles of civil and religious liberty are even yet very imperfectly understood . It will be a new thing in the history of the world when entire nations are found to live in harmony , and when the bond of union between man and man is— " we agkkk to differ . "
* The United States have exhibited for some time the example of a civilized nation growing to greatness without the aid of an Established Church . And all over Britain the feeling is becoming very strong
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778 An Independent in Church and State .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 778, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/46/
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