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to this effects ' Thife is the age of reform—of philamthropy ^ Uof diffused knowledge and Liberal opinions . How in it ptov ^ d ? People fa / A ; largely , yet « c £ narrowly . Much is said , but little done . Abstract charity or liberality is as useless as any other abstraction . One grain of good practice is worth a world of bright theory . To make the age really that which it calls itself , each individual must act in his own immediate circle in the spirit of
the age—must be as willing to impart knowledge as to gain it ; above ail , he must hold out the cordial hand of kindness to all his fellow-creatures , look with the smiling eye of love upon them , aqd most especially must he do this as regards that portion which unjust and unwise institutions have placed at a disadvantage . Nor let the lowliest being breathing remain inactive from any impression that the power to soothe and serve his fellows be net allotted him . Each has his talent , and because some have ten talents that is no reason why he who has but one should not put it out to interest ; nay , that he has but one is the strongest of all readftns , since the less we have the more it behoves us to use exertion to make something of it .
r Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends , however humble , scorn not one : The daisy , by the shadow that it casts , Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun . * M . L # . C
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{ Continuedfrom page 323-y t Having treated of the representative body in the third chapter , Mf . Bailey proceeds in the fourth to discuss the electoral body . A consideration of the persons of whom it should be constituted
occupies the first and second sections . Fixing the attention of the reader on the object to bo accomplished by the suffrage , viz . the selection of the persons beat qualified tor the duties of legislation from the candidates who are presented , the author inquires into the qualifications for it * possession by which the wisest choice will be secured . These qualifications he describes to be , first , the requisite
intelligence ; and secondly , freedom from partial interest , whether arising from a class interest at variance with that of the community , or a sinister individual interest created by the application of bribery or intioxidation . Supposing the great body of the population not to be sufficiently enli g htened for the useful exercise of electoral functWnt , the most obvious criterion of qualification is afforded by the possession of property .
But the property is merely the index , « 4 vl aot th * claim . Government does not exist simply for the protection of property
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THE RATIONALE OF POLITICAL REPRESENTATION . "
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The Rational * > of Political Rtpfemdation . 4 **
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1835, page 405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2646/page/41/
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