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The re-edification of a nation is not the coup de theatre of a French constitution , sworn to vehemently by all , to be trodden under foot by each . It implies truth , and conviction , and obedience . It cannot be denied that there is such a thing * as moral truth , as well as physical truth . The questions , ' What is truth ? ' who will show us any good V imply that we know not truth , not
that there is not truth . The question , Who will show us any good V would be more difficult to answer , if it were not coupled with the question , c What is truth ? ' In establishing what is truth , we may hope to establish , who will show us good ? This is
what the world needs . The word of truth and power must go forth into the moral chaos : ' Let there be light . ' Let us not be so foolish as toTmistake what is only darkness visible , for too much light . We have it not in our power to return , either for good or for evil , to complete darkness . It may then be wise to increase the light , which at present is gloomy , and portentous , and threatening , till it is sufficient to light every man on his
way . We had hoped the Chancellor , at least , with his power of place and patronage , would have said to the chaos , Let there be li ght . He need not have sneered , he need not have complimented , he need n&t have professed : he should have expressed a deep and
solemn conviction that there is darkness , thick , fearful darkness over all the people , the moral darkness of discord and anarchy , which there is just sufficient intellectual light to render visible , but not to show the remedy . Opportunities of education , are what is wanted . It is wanted to soften men ' s hearts , even more than to enlighten their intellects .
Emollit mores , nee sinit esseferos .
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The Book of Penalties . c The penalties imposed for the protection of the public revenue , for the purposes of police , and for the security of individual transactions , are extremely numerous , and not unfrequently ruinous in operation . Hardly a pursuit of civil life , whether of pleasure or profit , can be entered
upon without being liable to penal visitation . We cannot travel on the highway , swing a gate , read a newspaper , buy a pair of stockings , receive or pay money , take medicine , not even engage in religious worship , without being obnoxious to some overt of latent enactment , scattered through the wide waste of the Statutes at large . —Preface .
And so the Author has made a dictionary of them , where we may find , in alphabetical order , the pocket-traps which beset us . We cannot recommend his book to nervous persons of limited incomes * It is better to die than to live in the hourly dread of death * And liability to penalty is as inevitable as mortality itself . Nor ought the book to be sold to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/70/
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