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sinks into the creature of a king , and the tyrant of all below hppft in the conventional scale ; directly or indirectly he inymWs £ heir dearest privileges , insults their finest feelings , and taii ^ tsthw spci ^ d atmosphere . The superficial polish of courtesy , like t ^ e varnish on some insects , prevents aristocracy being as loathsome to the senses as to tte soul ; but the evils inflicted through its means are
not for this polish the less fatal—perhaps more so ,, a ^ s the razo r dipped in oil cuts deepest , because the wound it makes is at the moment unfelt . It is said that there is no smoke without some fire , and certainly there is no fire without some fuel . If the people will put themselves like dry sticks under the caldron of corruption , of
course it will be kept boiling . There is no antidpte to the naoral poison which infects the political and social atoiQsptiere with the breath of mock greatness and its worshippers , —there js pq antidpte but a real love , a real respect for humanity . Whi ^ t wquld , the actors , from the principal down to the meanest ; page » in that puppet show , a coronation , feel , if the people , instead of reading the air with senseless acclamation , would let the pageant pass unnoticed ? Why , the proudest player would feel ready to sink
with shame under the sense of his own emptiness , aad each would shuffle out of the show as soon as he could . I am nq enemy , let me here parenthetically observe , to ceremonies and assemblies which serve to congregate multitudes , animate joyous feelings , and kindle glowing spirits . I agree with Fanny Butler in all she says of the € home religion' of keeping birthdays , &c , and we could not do better than cultivate social
religion , political religion , by commemorating the anniversaries of the periods of great events and glorious human beings . Be Christmas day a day of universal charity in memory of the model of benevolence on that day given to the world ; be the birth of Washington commemorated by all that can indicate admiration of patriotism and freedom ; be Shakspeare * s birth camall that do to
memorated h ^; can honour genius and poetry , f n each a&ociatu > a « however small , be there domestic festivals an ^ l let these * like circles in water , extending into larger and larger circles , animate , the spirit which would occasionally convene meetings to do honour to the memory of the social , the luUjpnfU * the univereal benefactor . (If , in 'tittusiot * tetheae , the ydung were to a * fc \ h * eklers , ' Why te thl »? WhWt * 5 re make we these . rejoicingsjT t ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 772, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/16/
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