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    a&tltenp ^ rj ^ fortahei'e there to tmceitaitity therertuist bfc fear * nd ^ Waitude ; and where they are , happiness cannrit be . / Lrtixiiry and misery have now , it might be imagined / reached theif extreme points , and St . James ' s and St , Giles's are as complete antipodes as it is possible for them to be ; but the universal impression made by these revolting and unnecessary contrasts bears a new character from one important circumstance ,, which is ,

    the general disposition to look into the constituents of human nature *—the general disposition to perceive that physical wants , rttoral affections , and mental capacity , have equal claims to satisfaction , enjoyment , and exercise in every class ; and that , as regards these , if there be not , and perhaps never will be , the equality whtth an extreme philanthropy proclaims , there is no such inequality as conventional rule pretends .

    Men are now weighed by another standard than they were of old , when the husbandman and the artisan were held to be , by divine decree , little better than beasts of burthen , and monarchs

    And gobies were deemed , by divine right , something more than demiijOfis . The slow but sure progress of time , has accumulated eyictefijce that strikes even purblind prejudice . When the observer looks around for beauty , where does he find it ? Only ambng the privileged in courts and cities ? Does the anatomist

    jeTCfcive a fine organization to be exclusively confined to the Wealthier classes ? Does the moralist discover the virtues and fclffectioiis only in the circles and homes of opulence ? No , no . ttdirever long the present gross and unequal division of the goods if'life ttody continue , they will never again be held as right or necessary . The people are rising in the moral scale , and , to jf freierve anything like the ancient order of things , their

    conventtonal superiors must rise in proportion ; but they have too long been satisfied with a factitious elevation to have much power or disposition to attempt taking a real one ; and if they did , as natuije , When given fair play , is no respecter of persons , they could h 6 i ' feecure being the fleetest in the race or the strongest in the battle . Also vain , weak , and fatal , will be all attempts to repress those who are resolved to rise—as the weight of pressure , so will bei th e * fierce of resistance ; and woe to the instrument of such diterrtpts—the boiler is the first sacrifice to an explosion . Thd holder of power is too often like an intoxicated man ; as insensible of impending danger as of reason or justice , he does not see that his own true interest consorts with both , and that he

    had better concede like a relenting brother than be conquered like a reluctant brigand . So inebriated has power become , that it lias ceased to malte oblations at the shrine of hospitality , which once prbntpted the wealthy , on occasions , to cast wide the castle gates ; to people the ttficient hall with guests of all decrees , who ! ti the gehejWs fevel forgot griefs an $ forgave injuries . Now dbs ^ tftelsni j [) & ) clalfti 9 the sympathy which the rich and titled

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/54/