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jecU ^ 6 * # *** . twg ht , ; frprn * hi * th upj ^ rds to . lpvp , iq , fsel * to fqftim . M&mwk to taught whst t > happiness , and how it is ^ ta be generated and preserved . The delicate psroeptipn ^ s wit h which ir \ ftuicy a . & juiiypKsafyy . iwect ^ da and which may be regarded as th ## ervc # of oiora , ! life , must not be obtunded and paralyzed as
n < j ^ they jBUT ©; pe ^ pe , good will , charity , and tpitU , though perfeptly ^ onsastent with every organization , are the spontaneous growth , perfectly and uniformly , of noiae . Schools , therefore , ^ re tt ^ trne temples of religion , whence may issue beings , of eaph of whpm the Supreme may say , This is my beloved child in whom
I 4 m well pleased . | f man ' s duration on this earth may be calculated by the extent of knowledge presented to him for investigation , remote inde $ 4 jqaay we regard the period when the last man shall look upg& the blackening sun and say , 4 Go , tell the night that hide * thy face , Thou saw ' st the last of Adam ' s race
i . On earth ' s sepulchral clod , The darkening universe defy To quench his immortality * Or shake his trust in God / How important , then , that man should make good progress in the science without which all else is mockery ! He is popr in th& midst of wealth , ignorant however possessed of knowledge ,
who cannot apply them to the purposes of happiness The . great of . past ages have left us fine precepts , fine models *—one stands out pre-eminent in beauty and purity—but what have these avA | l $ d ? We have no plan of process by means of which these precepts may be fulfilled , by means of which such models may be . ftft&lized again , realized permanently and universally . With
alj ; , <* ur , b < 3 £ 3 ted progress , human nature and its management is aguoftuc ^ i a mystery as ever . Physical science ( either increasing or ^ r ^? iyij > g # for who . shall say how much the past may'have engujjfed which the present may be only restoring ?) is being diffuAftl ; fyey * HKl any precedent on record ; the mighty arm of mactt yH ^ ry 113 working wonders ; the power of locomotion has rec $ j | fgd >{ tn impetus which seems to promise eventually to unite tt ^ pt ^ e ^ . But , amid all thia material progress and change , there is . j ^ . a ^ alogou ^ moral * progress and chan ge discernib le . The d ^ nnA W ^ of that moral knowledge which would teach participation pf , all that is good , and mitigation of all that is evil , which opff hal hile had whole
wy ^^ lei . ft , ufaqt f a Wf w another a 000 is ^ qknewjtu , Feeing and fenaine are not merely co-exi * tent , Af flT m « . in jvjfit ^ Tpo % M > ia ^ and the palace of luxury and the Uz * Mfbb # M ^ qF , pinery are almost side by wdU > , making the reflective 1 « M ^ J ^ WTfr Xkp . idw fa * this is the age of diffusion . I : W * [ m ^ y * ^ ftinu 9 te id ^ atanq ^ by means of riolsoa ^ B iok ^ 18 t £ Wr smwqm ' , W p jbtf > ^^ ^ nwrta m ^ c ^ l p » w #¥ : ^ u ^ logoue the treiwn -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 714, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/22/
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