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the youth ^ he . refused it > ? saying , ? Go to so and so ( naming th iifeh-fccqeet ^ L » liini ()^ M / can hold oil a little longer , &e is < fuiie ex hwuftedi ' ' , > m ; j ;) ..:.. ¦ ,:- - , , ,, . . , ••• ¦¦ ' ¦ . . : ' .. .: " • . ¦ : ¦ . Was not this magnanimity—pure , naked , magnanimity , owing nothing tb the tirick or the trapping of station , catching nettling
from ihe faope of reward or renown ? Verily , amid all the gems tbat nqines have yielded , this , to my imagination , is the brightest off any . That youth , whoever he be , has a moral power which education ought to cultivate , and the voices of his fellow-country-T » en call into activity . He holds the freehold of a fine nature , tne ooly rational qualification for a delegate from national power * or a /* epi « 6 eiitative of it .
Then * is a young member of one of our Mechanics' Institutions , v * ha > 4 Lfteir > the punctually-fulfilled duties by which he wins his daily bcea « L > acts as a gratuitous teacher at the Institution , to which he has presented a piece of work equally honourable to his ingenuity and industry . How much does this man give to society out of his lk $ e ; , gives it , too , without hope of reward , save that reward which is inherent in the work itself ! Let us contrast this young
mechanic with the supine possessor of thousands * with the woman who carries a pair of diamond pendants in her ears ( a ^ barbarism jmst one degree , removed from a ring in the nose ) , or with the man who carries a star upon his breast , and who trusts to these gew > tow ' s for distinction—and gets it !
I ** a s a few days since in the shop of Rundell and Bridge * looking &t the silver model of Eton College , which the ; Kipg has pretlented to that college ; and I felt that I could not havestooil acquitted to my conscience to own the idle wealth I there beheld , or any portion of it , amid the existing want which racks sq many millions ot my fellow-creatures . Oh ! to have converted those brilliants into bread , and to have called the pale and perishing to W banquet ; to have converted those shining mockeries of grace ami gVandeur into sources of real goodness and greatness , into tJK ? i } 9 ois for the young and asylums for the old ! Then many an eye , . now destined to the * ever-during dark' of ignorance and its co nsequent ,, vice , might be kindled with the diamond light of intelligence and virtue : and many a toil-worn spirit , destined to depart in pain , might make its transit in peace .
" ^ Urply the time is fast appi'oaching when the present degrading masquerade of pomp , amid surjwinding : masses of * misery , will one and a ^ i pass away . 1 he spirit in which we must regard all tcailias existed , is that it has existed of necessity ; but now , with petter knowledge and accuniallied experience , that it need exist n& longer . Error is the con ^ dniitatit of human production , but royement of human proeressidn . improvement will prfcss f VWU > : - r . - . 'lij . i ,-, in ' ofit T : » f' I . t- L j r J . f . . V _ xa ^> i Iuy 6 n antiquated pretension , bloated and pursy as itia ; WH dut or £ he line ofniarcli . Whfch practical kn ^ led ^ c firtd tUiiversal love will load . '^ rUi& ^ t ' ioMUcHt ' WdUfi ^ l ivithotit
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W 8 Power rmd the People .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/56/
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