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i \( i < Mni ye haate tmwfctt to him that weareth the g * y clothing , and mj wtoi iuoi * Stftlwu here in a good place : and say la the poor , Stond tko * tl ^ ret or fit Iwre under my ft > otstaol : * Are ye not then partial in yourselves , and are become judges of evil thoughts V
This has been the popular proceeding from the days of the Apostles , to say nothing of the foregone time , until the present hour . Vainly has it been written , that all men are brethren , and God the Father of all . How many out of the millions professing this in their creed declare it in their conduct ? an universal law by
the custom of that conduct bastardizes the majority of the human race ; the privileged except themselves and a few necessary to their support , but condemn all the rest of their fellows to it , or , when forced by the grappling of some strong spirit to acknowledge affinity with their less fortunate brethren , they urge the dull legitimate ' s plea , and say ' tis but a left-handed relationship .
Upon this hotchpotch of prejudice , this mess of heterogeneous materials , how is the universal co-operation which the philanthropists advocate to be brought to bear ? True it is that human nature is , and . ever has been , the same ; but though the constituent elements are not many , their combinations are multitudinous . These simple elements of humanity , like the letters of the
alphabet , are , according to the arrangement of circumstances , spread out into countless volumes of character , each written in a peculiar language , and requiring a copious glossary to render it . intelligible to the reader . Besides the immense variety of individual character , the joint produce of peculiar organization and peculiar circumstances , there is hereditary or family character which , I deem , acts upon the human creation , as , through the medium of
domestication , it does on the brute creation . Hereditary character speaks aloud in the classes—the offspring of aristocracy have nervous delicacy , but no muscular strength , and their mental character very generally corresponds with their physical character ; they are like wax easily moulded to the uses of elegance and luxury to which * alone they are admitted :
the poorer classes on the contrary have more strength and less susceptibility ; they are iron which it is difficult to temper into the flexibility necessary for social life . Political philosophy can as little devise an immediate and universal remedy for all social evils , as medical science can produce an universal panacea for all physical diseases . Competition , as it exists , may be the bane , but universal co-operation is not the antidote , were it only that H is impossible to apply it . . There are no cmsumotaiiftea purely co-operative under which the present discordant atoms could be brought together in which they wautd
not hiss , at meeting , like fire and water , and soon struggle into niw ; semrationsj . Eke aU opd water which had for a time been iart ^ l ^ juiictibn . V We might as weU set the MAckamrtb ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 774, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/18/
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