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cfrVfcHbbk the process ; we are selfishly synthetical instead of being gtfkte-fiilly analytical . Every good which we enjoy through the skill and lafcotnr of our brethren should lead us to regard them as well , nay more , than their works ; for if the work be valuable , still tootle so is the worker . But for the production of this feeling ,
which ought to exist among men , and would serve more than anything else to unite them in the bond of reciprocal love and brotherly feeling , the motives for labour must be different from what they now are . The man who exerts his talent merely for money , we feel to be paid when he has his money , and there the
compact ends ; but he who exerts his talent for the love of his species can be paid only by their love , and that compact is everlasting . Upon this base we must place labour . A new and totally different appreciation of labour and labourers must prepare the way for the practical change it will otherwise be vain to
attempt . Labour must be looked upon as a boon to all , a badge upon none . Every child must be reared to aspire to labour as one of the first and happiest privileges of his humanity , and to do his part of the world ' s work well must be his best ambition ; he must be taught to give his labour lovingly unto his fellow-creatures ,
and take in the same spirit in exchange , their labour for his own . He must enjoy the goods of life because they are furnished by his brothers ; not engross them , as now , because they are bought with his money : he must feel that as love can only be paid by love , so can labour only be paid by labour , and that nothing short of all , in some way or other , being working people , can
render the world the theatre of universal happiness- Children must be taught to regard the being who is voluntarily unemployed , who performs no useful part in the business of life , as a degraded being ; as one who has willingly stepped down from the level of his fellows , and can subsist but by their sufferance and compassion . There is not a young mind in existence which Would not revolt at such debasement . Sloth and solitude are the
pandemonium of humanity : industry and association , properly directed , its paradise . In the course of the education of children , and now I speak of the happier instances , they are taken to look at machinery and manufactures ; they examine and , as far as they understand , they admire : but we work at their heads , rarely at their hearts . Do
we say to them , —the beings who made this had feelings and affecttons like yourself ;—do we lead them to feel pain at the idea of any of tkee feeKngs and affections being excruciated , or to glow with delighted sympathy at the idea that they were gratined ? Ao ; like the critic who forgot Garrick to look at the stop-watch , we forget 0 nr fdtkfer-creatures evem while looking at their et&a&om . ' B « t it may j « tJy be Ufged that in the present state of society
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 776, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/20/
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