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martyrs more blessed than theirs in the day of the world ' s regeneration . An incidental effect , of a subordinate description , is mentioned by Mr . Clarke , which is not unworthy of notice . ' The labour of writing for the public will cause you no greater effort than that of inditing a letter to a friend . ' The author ' s
allusion is to the store of material and the habit of composition ; but it is not improbable that he was unconsciously influenced by observation of the great change which is taking place in the function of the art , of printing . We are beginning at length to understand the use of the press . From being little more than the means of preserving and multiplying copies of a few standard
works , it is becoming the medium of universal mental communication . By the increasing extent and rapidity of its operations , it assimilates public writing to private talk , and tends to make the entire community one great conversation club , with the advantage of listening to whom we will , though his speech may be neither the loudest nor the longest . No doubt many errors ,
crudities , and paradoxes are poured forth which formerly would never have been printed ; but still the public advantages of this familiarity of intercourse between minds of all classes are immensely , preponderant . It is like a free admission to the free talk of all the intelligent ( including the soi-disant intelligent ) of the country . Such a ticket is worth something . If not , why do
the Whigs continue the tax which Pitt laid upon it , because , as he said , it was a luxury ? Hereafter each generation will produce its own literature , bearing the impress of its own peculiar spirit . The ablest expositions of sciences which are at or near completion ; first-rate works of imagination , taste , and genius ; and authentic records of facts : these will continue to float down
from age to age , the title-deeds of an intellectual inheritance to those who will manufacture their own small change and current coin , according to their own skill , taste , and wants . November includes a politico-philanthropical di g ression , of which the spirit is admirable , ( p . 215—218 . ) Ilow deeply , often , does what appears to be onl y light talk and common-place common sense go into the principles upon which institutions and
society must be renovated , when such talk grows out of the axioms of human right and Christian truth . A few plain and undenied sentences about man ' s brotherhood , the duty of labour , and the correction of thievery , point towards reforms in the laws of inheritance , the distribution of property , and the theory and practice of criminal legislation , at which bishops would ' stand aghast , ' and senators be more than ' half confounded . ' Do not he alarmed , good reader ; Charles Cowden Clarke neither teaches a-nti-property doctrines , nor fraternizes with Destructives .
Hie few remarks , in December , on the education , duties , capabilities , and influence of woman , ( p . 234—236 , ) deserve much better than to be written in ffold . There is a more fittincr tablet
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1834, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2630/page/69/
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