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And the middle classes perceive a similar difference between the virtuousness of a married man , and of an unmarried man . We do not object to the censure of the former , but to the palliation of
the latter . This toleration has a most debasing effect upon character ; such distinctions tend to merge moral purity in conventional propriety . A course of life , fashioned by these ethics , begins with a youth of profligacy , and ends in an age of decency , hypocrisy , and cant .
S . T . Coleridge . —Our publication of two original letters of the late poet , last month , has occasioned our being favoured with the following from a Correspondent ,, by whom it is authenticated to us . It relates to the celebrated scheme of Pantisocratical Emigration , and was addressed to Mr . Charles Heath , of Monjnouth , under date of 29 th August , 1794 : — Sir , Your brother has introduced my name to you , 1 shall therefore offer no apology for this letter . A small but liberalized party have formed a scheme of emigration on the principles of an abolition of individual property . Of their political creed , and the arguments by which they
support and elucidate it , they are preparing a few copies—not as meaning to publish them , but for private distribution . In this work they will have endeavoured to prove the exclusive justice of the system and its practicability ; nor will they have omitted to sketch out the code of contracts necessary for the internal regulation of the society ; all of which will of course be submitted to the improvements and approbation
of each component member , As soon as the work is printed , one or more copies shall be transmitted to you . Of the characters of the individuals who compose the party , I find it embarrassing to speak ; yet , vanity apart , I may assert with truth , that they have each a sufficient strength of head to make the virtues of the heart respectable ; and that they are all highly charged with that enthusiasm which results from strong perceptions of moral rectitude , called into life and action
by ardent feelings . With regard to pecuniary matters it is found necessary , if twelve men with their families emigrate on this system , . that 2000 Z . should be the aggregate of their contributions ; but infer not from hence that each man ' s quota is to be settled with the littleness of arithmetical accuracy . No ; all will strain every nerve , and then I trust
the surplus money of some will supply the deficiencies of others . Tie minutiae of topographical information we are daily endeavouring to acquire ; at present our plan is , to settle at a distance , but at a convenient distance , from Cooper ' s Town on the banks of the Susquehannah . This , however , will be the object of future investigation . For the time of emigration we have fixed on next March . In the' course of the
winter those of us whose bodies , from habits of sedentary study or academic indolence , have not acquired their full tone and strength , intend to learn ttie theory and practice of agriculture aVid carpentry according as situation and circumstances make one dr the other convenient . -..: '»¦ ' * Your fellow Citizen , Jesua College , Cambridge . 4 S . T . Coleridge '
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740 Notes on the Newspapers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/66/
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