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hereditary character ^ litile drawn * advantageously into £ A <* £ gowroe ; hi » infancy was consigned to a woman like Baime * ,, and servants of , * similar stamp , only relieved by occasional intoirconTsewiih antindulgent mother , who was utterly without thought or feelirig beyond Ihe narrow conventional circle in which , she moved * <> Asf hj $ boyhood advanced , he was , from his love of horses ,
attracted by his father ' s grooms , and no small portion' of tbeir vulgarity was engrafted on his mind ; after this probation , he suffeFed the further degradation of a public school > in wlucfe ^ as fag < bik ! tyrant ^ he strengthened and confirmed every formic ievil inapressJoa that he had received ; from the public school be twent 4 o colieg © j incited by his mother to the ambition of patrician assodiar
tion , witha View to both present distinction and future ludvatitagd . Riot and dissipation met him at the college gate& > and coea « - panioned him during- his abode , till he returned to his father ' s mansion almost callaus and incapable of one pure joy oi < holy feeding . ; '; : j . : ¦¦ . • • •!> ^ - 111 . Few things are-more important to human happiness an 4 improvement than the recognition of the doctrine of necessity ^ hich
makes us perceive that every creature is what it is frorrw > ts < a % ganiaatiotl and circumstances , and can be no other , unless change be effected upon'these . Such a conviction must disarm beings iof the rancorous animosity and contempt with which they jare / so prone to > aregard each other ; such a conviction must indued those anxious attentions to early training and social > cirourastand £ 8 ^ by means of which alone the human being can be improved . « i ^
It is my most anxious wisb , that while attempting to : do' sortie good , I should give no pain ; I would therefore ¦ desire top , obviate the shock which the doctrine of necessity gives toi many religious minds , and some moral ones . Cannot the first substitute * the word consequences for reward and punishment , anil"tjarry " out
the doctrine of consequences as far as they please ? Can nob the second feel that censure still attaches to crime , thoughinot to the criminal?—he , like all the afflicted , is ever the mosfc pitidble of wretches . How spoke the purest of all beings aboipt hie persecutors ? * Father , forgive them , they know not what the !/ doS
Kvery crime has its source in ignorance ; its perpetrator may tn some respects be the most ingenious of men ; but- let hito'know what ltej may , h » knows not moral truths nor * the reaction conse quent upon its violation . " i :, i ¦ , ¦ "» . « ' »«» ' ¦> <• ^«' P
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/21/
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