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instilling into all around us an abhorrence of injustice , craft , fraud , and every description of imposture , a proper idea of themselves , and a just respect for the consciences of others . ' Decent graves should be dug , and the funeral waited for patiently . The state is , by implication at least , a contracting party
with the clergyman , and the terms are , the discharge of the duties of his office , and the permanent security to him of its emoluments . The mechanic ' s bargain is only with his employer . His contract is only private and contingent , not public and permanent . In receiving his wages for the time , he has had all for which he bargained . Not so the clergyman , if discharged as our author
proposes . And the hardship would be greater in proportion to his helplessness . In such a change , the country could well afford not only justice , but liberality . The change ought not to be obstructed by the existing occupancy , neither should it be sullied by their needless sufferings , nor need it be long delayed on their account . To a real responsibility for their doing the good to the
community , which was their implied part of the engagement , the clergy might reasonably be subjected . The legislature has also the right of modifying the service required of them , provided the nature of the employment be not essentially changed . So that what with employing the able and well-disposed , cashiering the
incorrigible who might and ought to be cashiered on the present system , and bearing awhile the dead weight of those who come under neither description , this great reformation might be effected with less delay , and much less attendant evil , than any reformation or revolution recorded in history . It would be much more glorious and beneficent .
It is time to think of these things , and not have our navigation to study when the storm is up . Selfishness and ignorance , both without and within the church , will be active enough in the fray Changes there must and will be , and it is well to consider beforehand on what principles they should be made , and towards what result of public good they should tend . Let Francis Ross think this matter over again , before he takes type in hand to set up a second edition , -which we hope will be called for speedily .
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784 English Morality .
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England is a prude among nations . As long as she preserves external propriety , she plumes herself on the possession of superior virtue , and shakes her head at flirting France , glowing Italy ,
glorious America , and romantic Poland—nay , towards the latter she has exhibited an utter indifference , regardlessly beheld her torn and tortured , like an antelope in the fangs of a wild boar ! Such conduct was at utter variance with England's professed love of freedom , and hostility to spoliation . But liberty , though long
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ENGLISH MORALITY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 784, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/52/
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