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CRITICAL NOTICES.
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keeper of the King ' s conscience , and therefore of the nation ' s piety . The romance was so dull , that it died . The drama seems to have more in it ; and the Times' has done something 5 to make it live . Its censures are something like the exclamation of the Puritan : — If I were one of the wicked , how I should like thee , O thou abominable creature ! ' We will not say the play is not
profane till we know more of it ; but we are quite sure that the rebuking and extracting , together , are a good specimen of the twaddling hypocrisy by which some people in this country think to impose upon others , like a gourmand abusing , with a farcical mixture of truth and falsehood ., the unwholesome but savoury dish which he purposes to preserve for his own especial and exclusive gluttonizing .
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Hampden in the Nineteenth Century . 2 vols . 8 vo . 4 A man who is born into a world already possessed , if he cannot get subsistence from his parents , and if the society do not want his labour * has no claim , of right , to the smallest portion of food , and , in fact , has no business to be where he is . At nature ' s mighty feast , there is no vacant cover for him . She tells him to begone , and will quickly execute her own orders . '
So wrote the reverend author of the * Essay on Population / and 10 printed he in his first edition ; and we have ever regretted , that , unlesa explicitly retracted , the paragraph should have been withdrawn in the subsequent publication of his book . Here and there we see an economist of another stamp , busily propounding his schemes * making it his occupation to disturb the tranquillity of nature ' s banquet , by insinuating , that , as there is such facility
of production , it requires only an improved mode of distribution to enable each one to pay for his dinner ;—who , seeing and knowing with what comparative equality the intellectual gifts of nature are dispensed , groanB over the contemplation of the ignorance and vice whicli everywhere abound , — producing and produced by misery equally prevalent ;—actually imagine that the great masses of mankind are
unfairly dealt with , while they are placed in circumstanced , whicli , to a certainty , must cause the total neglect and misuse of their noblest powers;—and goes so far as to imagine the possibility of improving the arrangements of society , without injury to any , so as to give to each human being , not the power of improvement , but improvement itself , consequent on the defined and certain influence of * h& favourable
circumstances in which all may be placed ; not the power of procuring a demand for the heavy labour of his weary days , but such an equitable participation in the wealth that is created on all sides , as shall enable a lesti proportion of that labour to supply , moBt liberally , all hi& # * " ** 5 and thus to produce a degree of happiness of which the World is hitherto unknowing . Of this class is the author of ' Hampden in the Nineteenth Century / He is devoted to the improvement of his species , moral , intellectual , » *
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742 Critical Notices .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 742, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/68/
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