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    thq % toe ofi ithfe ^ truettieaatage , tha mostnperfet * ' « beciaiotif far he ioota ' tofiothltigi he trusts to nothings relative or collateral , The desirfe and endeavour to attain individual excellence should be coexistent and coactive with the universal philosophy ; while we desire good for all , we should equally desire individual

    capability to aid in the production of general good . This is not the tiew which is present to the minds of all the admirers and disciples of this wide philosophy ; they often seem rather to seek from it a shelter for human infirmity than , a motive for vigorous self-exertion ; they love to dwell on the sustaining

    strength of union , the pleasures of participation , and the power of numben ; they do not sufficiently feel that the key-stone of these great moral arches , the grandeur and beauty of which I freely acknowledge , is individuality . In the new faculty of looking afar , they forget to look at home ; but inasmuch as

    * Sands make the mountain , and moments make the year , ' individuals make the human world ; each of these , like the sand and the moment , have a relative value to the whole , bwt they have also a real value in their own person and place / In fact , universal power and happiness is only the aggregation of

    individual excellence ; the whole can never be complete till the ps * ts at ? in themselves perfect ; the existing state of the worl 4 > abounding as it does in vice and wretchedness , sufficiently deolarea the condition of its component parts . We must think less of what we are to derive , than what we are to bring to the great whole , ainee ihat can only accrue by such individual contributions , A watchful eye must be kept upon everything whi ( £ i has a tendency to generate sloth and dependence—the most fatal

    blights which can fall on human faculties , the most certain inlets to every vice which saps moral strength . Sloth and dependence Qpera&e a # would the use of crutches to a strong man ; his legs wpujd soon lose the power of muscular motion : they are like tfie substitution of fanatic faith for good works , which surrenders \ h& believer to sin and bigotry . We need but look at an array , Vwany organized despotism * to see what miserable machines the privation of independence makes men .

    , . * " Each fyr ail * is a fine maxim , but let it not be inverted , To agt up tQ it , there is but < me way—that is , for each to pay into the universal treasury the quota of individual merit . As the grand 4 £ qh ? qu $ r is within no ones reach , the branch banks of home and country are positively neoe « # ary- The moral wealth emanating from gppd buftband * ,,. good wiv * ftj good parent * , go **! children gP 9 ft ( citiaqna , and goeU le £ i * lp * pr » # tuugt yield the mwfcl qmt-^ Wti ng medium which wiU diapqat * th § riches of » nw $ r * al hp ypiy | g aa > ., - . , . . .. .: ,. ¦ ;• ,, , .. . .. . . . - ,. . ;? ;« , Iadividmility , like an haziest trader , takes ft took , and ascertains

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 598, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/34/