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    man . We stand rebuked . There can be no great good but from those who know not how to compromise . In the legal and peaceful straggle for right , compromise is worse than defeat . Measures &re eventually of infinitely less moment than the principles from

    which they emanate , and by which the entire system and spirit of a government must be characterised . The first point , with all true'reformers , is to obtain permanent security for popular ascendency . We should rather wait for any and every thing else , than let that be postponed or compromised .

    Political advance can only yield its best fruits to a people whose opinions , manners , and tastes , are progressing also . Impressed with this truth , questions have been mooted , which , by their discussion , tend to throw light on the best modes of diminishing social evil and increasing social enjoyment . The condition of woman , better as it may be here than in Eastern countries , or in

    ancient times , requires and demands a prompt amelioration in the imperfections of her education , the restrictions on her independent occupation , and the perversion of those influences on which man is dependent for the source of his purest enjoyments , the stimulus of his noblest exertions , and the full developement of his highest

    capabilities . The conviction must one day come , that in making woman little more than a mere property , as formerly in making fellow-man a property , * one ruleth over another to his own hurt . ' Woman must ever have the power of early education , and how much is yet to be done to render early education ( indeed all education ) rational and really moral ! Injustice is never a true

    interest . May next year bring under notice more of a class of publications to which it is a pleasure and a hope to advert ; writings of mechanics , which are not mechanical ; more Independents in

    Church a ' nd State ; ' works of men , who working with strong brains as well as brawny arms , shall at length earn for their class , not a drunken ' Saint Monday , ' but the sanctification of some portion of every day , for bodily rest , and intellectual activity and enjoyment . No good man should relax his efforts till this great portion of society

    is raised to its proper position . Its recompense , enlightenment , and refinement , are bound up with the rights of humanity and the progress of society . If in this work I can do any thing , as by the aid of my contributors I hope something may be done , towards making other classes understand them better , and towards making them better understand some particulars of the mode in which their own desires and rights can be most safely and speedily realized , I shall indeed esteem it a holy and a blessed work .

    The proportion of space which has been , and will be devotfe q to tdpics or Art , is only the index of a feeling of the purifying infltiencfe of the enjoyment to be derived from pictorial , or marble , as well as written poetry ; which is akin also to that derived from the all-pfervading poetry of nature itself ; and of the importance of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 870, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/66/