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Mitt! stub Cuelo. No. I. BY THE AUTHOR OP 'THE EXPOSITION OF THE FALSE MEDIUM.' &c
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Mitt! Stub Cuelo. No. I. By The Author Op 'The Exposition Of The False Medium.' &C
Mitt ! stub Cuelo . No . I . BY THE AUTHOR OP ' THE EXPOSITION OF THE FALSE MEDIUM . ' &c
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Scene I . A large circular mound covered with grass . Time , morning twilight . Father Zodiac * is reclining asleep at the foot of a Tree , Father Zodiac ( raising himself on one arm , half awake , yet with closed eyes )' . Oh , age of gold ! why wert thou so miscalled ? thou wert the age of virtue . Yet , oh the pity of thy natural misnomer ! for the metal which has bought and sold mankind ' s
morality and happiness , till the nations groan in a wide and deep distress is now , with corresponding self-illusory blindness , set up as a type of the bliss that is gone ! Why should the congealed blood , stagnant and yellow , in the veins of mother Earth , be set up as of more value than the children in whom her vitality freshly circulates , walking bright with active life upon her adorned surface , breathing and feeling upward , even as the Thought ascendeth star-ward , and is received ? Whence is this change ? whence is
this descent and gradual earthiness of heart , narrowed now in strength and scope , and cramped in all its pulses ? Can we not wait for the grave to do its work ? If the grave be earth and oblivion , and we become as the grave that holds us , why anticipate the doom ? But oh ! if it be but as the step towards a hi g her gradation of immortal destiny , insult we not , —thus wantonly dark of soul , and ungrateful to Sublime Beneficence , — insult we not the prospect of futurity through all its ascending and bright mysterious vistas , by thus wasting hopes and perverting energies , while
* Father Zodiac is a man who , by reason of extreme age , has retired from the active business of life , but by reason also of the clearness of his intellectual faculties , and sincerity of feeling in the cause of moral and political reformation in Kngland and all over the world , invites regularly every month a certain party of friends and others to visit him in his retreat , and discuss the occurrences of the time . He is , however , to be considered—as , i a deed , is not uncommonly- the case
with such old illuminated missals—rather as an abstraction of intellectual qualities than an ordinary corporeal individuality . Something of the wame kind , differing in character and degree , may also be said of Syrius , whom the reader is at liberty to consider as the great -grand son of Father Zodiac . The rest of the characters are impersonations of classes easily distinguished . Nothing in the least dramatic if intended in these paperi . They are merely conversations .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/1/
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