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is , that you have determinate views on all the subjects most interesting to mankind ; and you keep none of these back , but state them to the public on every fitting occasion . In England , on the contrary , whatever may be a man ' s opinions , he never brings any of them before the general public , eKcept those which are naturally suggested by the topics of the day ; the rest he keeps to himself , or reserves for
philosophical works . You can never tell what sort of persons those are who read the " Times , " or the " Morning Chronicle , " or the "Edinburgh Review , " or the " Quarterly Review ; " except that you can in some measure guess whether they are Tories , Whigs , or Radicals ; even in this , your guess is often wrong , and at the best , how little
this discloses of all that constitutes a man ' s real belief ( if he have any ) or the real furniture of his mind , no one knows better than yourselves . But whoever reads " Le Globe / ' tells you by that alone , an immense deal of his character and modes of thinking . And I , who have lon jy read it assiduously , as well as almost every other
publication which has proceeded from your society , may say that I now know the opinions of the St . Simonians , understand their language , desire to hear more of it on all subjects , and know in what manner my own ideas must be expressed , to find readiest access to their minds . I cannot say so much of any body of English readers , to whom I could address myself .
'To these reasons for corresponding with you , permit me to add one , which needed not to be backed by any others in order to render it sufficient;—the high admiration which it is impossible for me not to entertain for you , your purposes , and your proceedings . When I see men doing all that the St . Simonians do , and sacrificing all that they sacrifice , for a doctrine which has as much truth in it as theirs has ,
and which , though I am unable to adopt it , must , in my opinion , do infinitely more good by its good , than it can do evil by its evil ; when I see this , it is enough for me that such men think I can be of any use to them , to induce me eagerly to obey their call , as far as is consistent with what I owe to my own views of truth , and to the superior claims of my own country upon my labours and sacrifices .
This seems to be fully as suitable a termination to my letter as any formule of politeness , and with this , therefore , I will for the present conclude . '
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804 Comparison of the Tendencies , 8 fc .
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Rammoiiun Roy . —The Kditor has , in another capacity , expressed his feelings on the decease of this illustrious man . lie has reason to hope for mate vial 8 which will enable him to insert , in an early Number of the Repository , a more complete an < l authentic account of the Hindoo ieformer than lias yet appeared . The Notices of New Publications are necessarily postponed .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 804, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/72/
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