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of the writer ; and the intelligence , attainment , and benevolence of the man whose acquaintanceship is thus made , are such as to ensure esteem and regard . Oh , it makes one ' s blood boil to think of the political and literary persecution to which this man , in common with many others , was for so long a period exposed .
He carried his honesty , his intelligence , his benevolence , into politics ; that was his offence , and that alone . He served his country in the most efficient way , as a public writer , as a journalist who never compromised his principles , and who endeavoured , amid the strife of party , to diffuse in the country the
knowledge and the love of political principle . Hence he became a mark for the most unscrupulous and unrelenting malignity He has outlived those days ; but shall we forget them ? The claws of s The Quarterly' are pared ; the lacerations which they inflicted may be healed ; but those and other scars remain , and they should entitle the veteran to his laurel-wreath , which is all that the
people have yet to give to those of their friends who , not being relations of Earl Grey , tools of Lord Brougham , nor hangers-on of the Whig and Tory aristocracy , stand little chance of being the objects of public munificence .
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The Taien on Knowledge . 103
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When we would test the principles of public men , and learn what claim they have to the character of friends to the people , we first require to know their opinions of the taxes on knowledge . Let it never be forgotten , that he who has no desire to raise the mental as well as the physical condition of human beings ,
has no sympathy with man , as man . Grant the honesty of his zeal against the oppression which would deprive industry of bread , yet if he stop there , you do but number him with the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals ; for to consider man ( whatever his present state ) as a being having no other
wants than are supplied when he is clothed and fed , is to re gard him in the light of a mere animal , and is not to be the friend of man , in the higher and nobler sense of the word . And he who would not only stop there , but would resist every attempt to improve the moral and intellectual capacities of the many , is not the friend but the enemy of the people .
It is in no spirit of philanthropy that such a one will tell us that there is a possibility of the labourer knowing too much ; that more knowledge would make him discontented with his
present station , and thus give rise to great unhappiness . Too much knowledge ! Can there be too much light ? Yes , —to those who love darkness better , * because their deeds are evil . ' And if there he one deed of evil which- more than any other should shun the li ght , it is that of putting out the eyes of the labourer lest he
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THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1834, page 103, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2630/page/19/
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