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¦ " »¦ wen every poetical idea , to a dry mathematical demonstration : Perhaps this individual was one of the former , and was himself the dupe of his own ungoverned fancies to the same extent that he wished his hearers to be . He deceived others , having first deceived himself ; fooling his own reason before he fooled them into belief .
Harry of Newmarket . Why , this , I believe , was really very often the case . Moses , But did he ever do so against his own interest ? Did he ever lose money by it ? Harry of Newmarket . Can ' say he did * Nor was that at
mil likely , you may easily suppose . Moses . He often gained some end by it then ? . Mrs . Albion . He surprised his hearer , gratified his vanity , of amused himself and others : that was his object—do not let us become illiberal .
Harry of Newmarket . He did all that besides , but I am afraid Moses is pretty near the mark . Father Zodiac . Instinct often acts from ' foregone conclusions 1 as wall as reason , and perhaps the results are the more practical where a man does not look his own bad motives in the face . Mrs . Albion . But his family , —his distress for them ?
Father Zodiac , That justifies him in the abstract ; but civilized society , as it is called , has no practical mercy . Starving merit gets pity when it is dead ; and bestowing this , the act of Jetting starve is unconsciously balanced against the forthcoming sentiment of benevolence , and thus the world cries quits with merit . Virtue ,
nay , and vice too , are half idealities . If mankind practised half , or a much less part , of what they contemplated practising , there would be no time for sleeping ; action would eventually supersede thought ; and activity continuing from habit , we should soon become the least rational animals in creation . Wise is the
dispensation of our waking dreams ; but we should not assume perfection . We have the germ within us of a far better state and condition of society ; but we must earn it by correct prog » ession rather than exuberant activity . Mr . Albion . What sort of man was Mr . Ireland in other respects ?
Harry op Newmarket . A thoroughly agreeable gentlemanlike man , full of pleasant conversation on all topics , and quite as ready to listen to others , even when they did not possess a tithe of his own knowledge of the subject . There was a total absence of all assumption or dogmatism—partly the result of modesty and good nature , and partly from having no very fixed principles , but
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/22/
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