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the elements of greatness and goodness , but developed in an unequal degree , to understand each other ; to make them do justice mutually to each other ' s merits , and acquiesce in the necessary results of those laws of human and of external nature which have made the characters of the two nations different , and in so doing have marked out to each of them a different vocation , and commanded each to pursue the end of our common existence by separate , yet not by opposite , roads . An arrangement which , viewing it as St . Simonians , you cannot but regard as providential . Viewed in any way in which it can be looked
at by an enlarged intellect , and a soul aspiring to indefinite improvement , it is a subject of rejoicing ; for it furnishes the philosopher with varied experiments on the education of the human race ; and affords the only mode by which all the parts of our nature are enabled to move forward at once , none of them being choked ( as some must be in every attempt to reduce all characters to a single invariable type ) by the disproportionate growth of the remainder . €
You are not wrong in supposing that I have this object deeply at heart , and that the earnestness with which you on your part pursue it , is not the weakest of the ties of sympathy which connect me and you . I am sensible , moreover , that at the point of view at which you are placed , this must be the principal source of any expectation of good which you can entertain from my correspondence . But such is not the only , nor even the principal , of the motives which induce me
to choose the *• Globe * as a vehicle ( so far as your permission extends ) of many of my feelings and opinions . There is a stronger still ; it is , that among the readers of that journal I find a public capable of understanding those opinions , of entering into those feelings ; and in the members of your society , a body of thinkers and writers with whom I think it may be of use publicly to discuss them .
' It is not necessary for any one to remind you , that the St . Simonians are , just now , the only association of public writers existing in the world who systematically stir up from the foundation all the great social questions ; even those which have been settled long ago upon a footing which revolution has not yet completely carried away ; even those on which the ancient doctrines , howsoever they may have declined in their practical efficacy , have not yet ceased to be speculatively acknowledged by every one . You declare that all social questions must receive a new solution ; and while you propound with that
view the best ideas you have , you call upon all who are capable to do the same , and are yourselves willing to hear and desirous to understand all men .
' It even in tranee to have done this has exposed you to the misinterpretation and the odium of which you are the objects , it is more utterly impossible than you yourselves are as yet able fully UTunderstand , that any set of public writers should for a long time to come stand up openly in England and do the like . In England there is no ^ scope at present for general theories ; unless , indeed , they be generali- ' zations of such narrow views as make no call even upon the most uncultivated mind to look beyond its own miserably contracted horizon . 4 Michael Chevalier has frequently propounded in the " Globe , " thg
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0 / French and English Intellect . 801
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 801, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/69/
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