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the whole . The following are some of the latter paragraphs in this speech : — 4 * * * * y f ^ y lords , may be compelled to abolish tithes , and the people will not be relieved;—you may reduce taxation , and 1 heir wants will not be supplied ;—you may alter the currency , and commerce will not be
improved;—you may promote free trade until all the barriers separating nation from nation are destroyed , and the remuneration for labour will still decline . Scientific power , equivalent to an overwhelming supply of labour , will saturate all the markets of Europe ; and , directly or indirectly , reducing the value of every species of employment , aggravate the evils of competition by adding to the riches and cares of the Jew , and spreading , in all countries , more widely , poverty and misery among the many : —Vol . ii . page 350 . 1
Let , then , the youth of all classes , besides being trained in habits of industry , he taught that perception was given them to observe nature , — reflection to trace the relation of objects , —imagination to relish the beauties and harmony of creation , —affections to be sources of enjoyment . But , above all , lead them , practically , to discover that the ascendency of their moral and intellectual faculties is indispensably necessary to their greatest improvement and lasting happiness ,
" Quae possit facere et servare beatum . " The rising generation will then be competent , in a short time , to frame and highly to appreciate institutions more worthy of rational beings than any that can be borrowed from the annals of the world/—Page 363 .
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We are indebted for the foregoing remarks to a Correspondent , whose coincidence in the opinions , though not his admiration of the philanthropy , of the author , goes somewhat beyond our own . He has not adverted to a pamphlet , ' The Critics Criticised / in which Mr . Morgan has collected the various opinions expressed in the periodicals on 4 Hampden in the Nineteenth Century / and accompanied them with comments . In the introduction of this pamphlet he states , in reference to the publication itself , that
' Although speculations are indulged regarding the improvement and happiness to be enjoyed under a superior organization of society , the following are the only propositions demanding present consideration : — * That the scientific power now in rapid progress throughout Europe and America saturates ^ directly or indirectly , all the markets ot labour , and consequently depresses the value of every species of employment , manual or mental , and deprives numbers of employment altogether . 4 That a change of system is therefore absolutely necessary , to prevent confusion and anarchy .
' That , as the adults of all classes have been trained and educated ~ under existing institutions , their acquired habits render them unfit for a different constitution of society , which must therefore be brought about gradually and by general consent . * That the property , rights , and privileges of all remain untouched , and the following measures be immediately adopted : — * 1 st . A better regulation of employment in manufactures , especially for children . * 2 d . Employment upon land , for th destitute .
' 3 d . An improved system of moral education , both for rich and poor / " -Page 4 . The last of these proposals is the great thing wanted ; the first of the propositions is the great mistake of our Author , and the school to which he belongs . Its fallacy has been again and again demonstrated . It has been again and again proved that machinery increases , immensely , the demand for labour . Its destruction , instead of being that restoration
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Critical Notices . 745
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 745, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/71/
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