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moral ones . She hdfc futffiished us with energies , wfth stimulating appetites for dalling those energies into action / and with variety of matter for tfaetn to act on . " But for the supply of our moral wants , —for the principle on which , the method by which that supply may best be made , —comparatively few and feeble have been the attempts at discovery or application . Everywhere man
has been the dupe of wealth , nowhere the disciple of happiness . He has accumulated riches till they have produced poverty , —a paradox which only the present bitter experience of society could have suggested . Where shall we seek the cause of ail this ? In the fact that the creation of wealth has been pursued as an end , not as a means , and individual riches preferred to universal prosperity . This is the real Pandora , which , when it came upon the world , let the ills before
c Confined , Burst furious out , ami poison all the wind ; From point to point , from pole to pole , they flew , Spread as they went , and in their progress grew . * The love of property has usurped the place of the love of human nature : art is valued more than the artisan , trade than the trader .
In statistical inquiries , it is produce , not producers , that concentrates attention ; if the former be great , the political economist is satisfied ; he pronounces the country so distinguished to be in a high state of prosperity ; the human feelings , faculties , and frames , that have been tortured by privation , and abridged of their fair proportion of enjoyment and of life , are not even casually glanced
at ; and while he exults with pride and pleasure over wealth , which is the work of man , man himself , the work of God , is regarded as the mere tool , fit only to be worn out upon the prtH duction of wealth , which is carefully stored in well-appointed warehouses , while the wealth-producers are cast at random on the waste of chance charity , or churlishly admitted to ill-oaan structed work-houses .
The division of labour , and all the other principles of the science of political economy , have aimed at the increase of wealth , and the aim has been accomplished ; but the practical morality , that ought to make a primary part of this and every scienotyia left out of view . Where have we plan or principle for the increase or security of happiness , though to seek happiness be the inherent and inextinguishable master-motive of every human
breast—leading naturally to the exercise of every virtue , but under existing circumstances to every vice ? God is cofttimifdly replenishing the world with beings endowed for enjoyment * and animated by the desire to obtain it ; while man is multiplying circumstances that place all the qualification * and cravings Under an impious interdiction . . ' The love of property produced the fratricidal law of primage *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/51/
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