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workiq g w tyail ^ ing the streets witbt th * se tracts , $$ tjie ^ ijaml ?; and it is also pleasant to read the ravings of the ^ Tip » e ^ ^ opi tn ^| p , for it shows that the political swindlers feel their uxvp ? rt $ u ^ p £ Much , abuse has been showered on Joseph Hume and . JjqJmi Roebuck for the part they have taken on the Canada <) U ££ ti ? a - The cant of their opponents should be exposed . The talk of ^ fre dismemberment of the empire is a farce . If it can be shp ^ n that the Canadians can be more happy under their owngoyftmr inent , and thus save England the expense , then on all , taie pp » - ciples of philosophy the dismemberment ought to tak $ . { 4 aee . We should profit far more by Canadian allies than by Canadian subjects , and this the working classes will ia time compr ^ bepd
and bring to pass . Meanwhile , it is desirable that the pampbfct& of John Roebuck should occupy the place of ' Cobbett ' a R # gtf $$ ft * They will convey far sounder instruction to the people , they , will disseminate principles and not party squabbles ; they will apc&k to the conviction of reason , and not seek to excite blind paasioqfci Junius REmvjvuk , 11
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* V . * How amazing , how amusing- a study does the progress , of humanity present from the time when man first looked forth a £ et ) ce > yet fearful , savage from his forest refuge , to the time wbea , w } tb cunning craftiness , he based his political strength upon Ips brother ' s weakness ! A
Perhaps , amid all the progression perceptible in tfre * wodd , t ^ e human species itself may be said , in many respects , to be degenerated . As social refinement has advanced , moral magnanup ^ y has receded . Human nature , when rescued from nger ** . jftjjtmalism , and preserved from mere conventionalism , has a aaugni ficence to which not merely imagination ., but reason , clings r , , _
The strong feelings , the calm endurance , the impulsive QMfyrf $ sion , the flexile frame , the fine action of the savage , are all naU |* % l beauties , which , instead of being regulated by refinement , J * % ? 0 been surrendered to it ; in obedience to its cold , dull , seneGl&qp rules , the human being , like a copy taken from a copy , ha * . departed farther and farther from his original characteristics ^ Md passed into the tame automaton of civilization ^ : ;
I anrt no advocate for utterly untutored B ^ uce , any more { J } fc | i for merely tutored nature . Nay * if pompqlleit WjC ) iom » q boiHBoe > being scsUpod aiwd ^ tmked bv au J nc ^ ia n ft > e , and bmn ^ p Jik ^ UNl and backbit by aa £ uropoa % jneudt I should taoidtdly padfe * the
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POWER AND THE PEOPLE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 489, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/53/
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