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give up the service of ungodliness for ever , but would live a life wholly devoted to him and his holy word ! ' Nothing to clock and watch making and mending , Reuben ? This is the sum of Reuben Forster's story . This is the spirit , the genuine ., unadulterated spirit , of the advice and warning to the mechanic of England in 1833 . Such is the counterblast to Miss Martineau ' s sensual , earthly , and devilish * writings .
I put it to the author ' s conscience whether it is fair thus to invade the rights and honours of the twopenny tract compilers , I leave it to the taste and judgment of the reader , whether there be any difference of ethical and philosophical value between the Rev . Charles B . Tayler ' s volume , and any one tract which has been published by the society for the last ten years or longer . The f getting up' is better , the paper is good , and the typography beautiful—points certainly in its favour .
What are the social evils which the Rev . Charles B . layler , A . M . and country parson of the Church of England has the merit of discovering ? these , viz . scepticism , infidelity , atheism , are the inevitable consequence of a mechanic's troubling his head about politics ; that pocket-picking and swindling are the habits of associated reformers , in addition to their infidelity . I do not
state him unfairly—he has not directly said these things , but he most certainly does leave no other inference to be drawn ; a little more daring to his task was necessary , and we should have had it in plain English . The marrow of the mischief is , unlawful knaves have trenched on the plunder of legalized and authorized swindlers and pickpockets , and the mechanic is seeking means of
disfranchising these swindlers and pickpockets . The Rev . Charles B . Tayler may say there is no word of politics or political partyism in his book . No 3 the design is smuggled into port with a view to evading the duties , but there is the design . But to the infidelity , swindling , &c . The evidence is more than conclusive , it is as clear as that two and two minus one are three : no man ' s
pocket ever was picked in London , except at the Rotunda or at some meeting of political unionists , therefore these societies and meetings are the causes of pocket-picking . Nor was any swindling extant while people were orderly and well regulated in their belief and payment of taxes and tithes : and swindling is utterly
unknown and unfelt by every man , woman , and child in the kingdom , except by such as attend reform meetings , or have doubts as to the divine origin of Bishop ' s revenues . That dramdrinking and profane stage playing were quite unknown till mechanics took it into their heads to look at the clockwork of
government , and to think it possible that the machinery was sadly out of order , and needed a little of their skill . It was the irreligion of the people that accumulated the national debt . It was irreligion that ground the people down with taxes . It was irreligion that deluged Europe with blood . Lay the saddle on the
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738 Social Evils and their Remedy .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/6/
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