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    An Essay on the Moral Constitution and History of Man . Edinburgh , Tait ; London , Fox . Considerable portions of this Essay have appeared in the Christian Pioneer ' ; we are glad to see it entire ; and hope that the author will not long withhold the speculations referred to at its conclusion . He has traced the intellectual and moral progressiveness of mankind in the spirit of Christian philosophy , and laid a good foundation for the communication of his views afe to the ultimate form which society is destined to take , and the means by which that state will be realised . His work is an illustration of the providential education of the human race , and

    points towards the objects and results of that education . We cannot better complete our brief description , than by an extract from the plain and unpretending preface by which the Essay is introduced . * The author is not a theologian in the common acceptation of the term , that i 8 , he is not exclusively attached to any sect or system . He would wish rather to be considered a philosopher , if that term likewise had not undergone a change from its original meaning . In antiquity , philosophy and religion were united , and should never have been divorced ; but the priests of the dark ages assumed an exclusive and baneful dominion over religion , so that when learning was revived , philosophers soon

    came to be disgusted at the uncouth and distorted form of popular piety . In some respects , this Essay attempts to reunite those old friends and natural allies—religion and philosophy ; and the author has sanguine expectations that the fruit of such reunion will be the accomplishment of those hopes—which poets and philosophers—which wise and good mea ° » all aged , have entertained of the ultimate destiny of Man /

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    Report on the State of Public Instruction in Prussia , by M . Victor Cousin . Translated by Sarah Austin . We English are great haters of compulsion—except in those affairs in which we have been used to it . There it seems the most proper and natural thing in the world . To compel a man to toil and fight on board

    ship , is a camel which we can swallow : to compel a parent to have his child instructed , is a gnat at which we strain . Habit reconciles us to the one , and our sense of property makes us hate the other . * My children shall be taught or not as I please . ' In a very judicious preface , Mrs . Austin treats this prejudice most gently and winningly . The admirable document which she has translated contains material for the

    removal of almost every doubt and difficulty on the subject of national education . Moreover , it has the important recommendation of not being at all theoretical . It is fact , detail , actual experiment . We heartily thank the translator for the essential service which she has rendered to the cause of popular instruction in this country .

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    informers . We fear it may tempt many into that profession . It might be titled the Informer ' s Way to Wealth ; ' or the 'Rascal ' s Ready Reckoner / or 4 Receipts for Robbery prepared by Parliament . ' If any , like Ajax , prefer to perish in the light , here may they see the countless perils of the most cautious path . ' I'll gaze no more , lest my brain turn . ' Even the little which a poor reviewer has is dear to him , and only think of one ' s only shilling going ' half to the king and half to the informer /

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/71/