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    V , ffffl 4 P fyW e M % m k £ f * V ^ * ^^ Vffr ° P ^? f ^ ^ f a ^^ r pprnpfyof J % ^ ajqefftpecie ^ . Th . ere is an all wngfe ail ^ m ^ % reactfoji evexjp operation , and injustice on one sidp . mak ; es J ^ yry ccjntfi ^ ent o ^ tner ptjier : thu s the debasement of the ppor reacjts to tne degradation of the rich . The pale victim of an unhealthy trade , ( a crying evil , which , when men feel and think properly , will ; cease to exist ; for there is no real necessity for such

    tradesthey are ev er in the pay of some of the artificial wants of enervating luxury , )—the pale victim of an unhealthy trade labours for some pale victim of indulgence : the toiler is surrounded by children squalid and listless , or desperate and vicious through want , ; the idler , by children feeble and effeminate , or , perhap ^ equally desperate and vicious through excess . In the , U ome ^ of

    the one every feeling and faculty is stunted or stimulated , J > arar lysedqr provoked , according to the strength with which * nature has furnisried its inmates to endure or defy the injuries , qf fortune : in tfye home of the other all is abundance , or ratoer sujperabundanpe , with all the toys and contrivances which supersede the exercise of intellect , disturb judgment , distract attention .,

    excite the passions , —in fact , with all the moral impoverisJim £ ijLt that excess of money often produces . The young victima , of want , and the young victims of wealth , alike , at their destined hpur , swarm into the fields of life . There thev necessarily encounter ea , ch other : they are naturally brethren , but politically foes , apd conflict is the consequence , sometimes open , oftener covert . Their pursuits are severally , it might be said mutually , pleasure aiid /

    pillager—for these are frequently convertible terms—the pleasures of the , . libertine and the gambler surely deserve no better name thai ; the pillage of the pander and the pickpocket . Decei , t anifl credulity , artifice and indolence , are all upon the scene ; and tj ^ e strange transitions inevitably attendant on such a state of , things ( whicl ^ , under the denomination of ' the hope of rising , and , the fear of falling , " is held to be so admirable ) necessarily occifr . The poor man ' s son springs , by some means or other , into wealth and power ; the rich man ' s son sinks into want and infamy . Jfpr the civil war of life the former is often better educated , thiw > the

    latter ; is frequently possessed of energies unknown to the supine inheritor of fortune . The pupil of poverty has often craf ^ , whert } the disciple of wealth has only credulity , and credulity of , the worst kind—that of erroneously believing himself tp be a vej ^ y superior creature . Thus the one will be subtle and servile , yw ) aere the other will be vain and haughty . The first fights for all that makes life desirable ; the second only seeks something tp . render it endurable ; the one is starving , the other surfeited ; the , Q ^ e i »

    fierce and self-depqndent , th * , other effeminate , and depep cjftftt on the services of pt ^ hers . What , ia the long run , 03 is familijMfJy said , must be the Jls $ u $ , of such arr < jmgemei \ t ^? 1 'h ^ t w hWJi ^ is ^ a —virretchcdiieas . Th ^ riph are al outet hs re pHjle froitt . Jtwpift £ »

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/53/