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    it were hardly possible to do this ; , tha , t the excited teoUogs . oJf the child would lead him to turn to the labourer , and what wqujd J * e find him ? almost as much a machine as tlje thing he m ^^ esT—ftihe excited feeling , instead of being strengthened , would he extinguished . Very true . And why is this ? Because we debase the labourer are we then to draw an excuse for feeling towards turn

    disgust and indifference ? No lofty motive has been kindled or kept alivein him—we kill his energies and aspirations , and theft complain that they are dead . There is no reason on earth why the labourer , of every kind , may not be liberal in his knowledge * and even refined in his habits ; it is not labour of any sort which has been the cause of human degradation , but its excess ., and the wretched modes of life falsely supposed , or infamously made , their inseparable adjuncts .

    Is it feared that liberalization and refinement will lead men sx > much to aspire , that the coarse work of the world will not be done ? Let there be no fear—that which is essential will always be performed either by man , or his mighty agent , machinery ;

    and as for aspiration—the desire of rising ! Oh , that that which is the evidence of our improvability and the index of our immortality should , by being confined to the shallow and infected channels of avarice and ambition , be the badge of our degradation , creating little else than place and pelf lovers !! !

    Co-operation requires a harmony in the social atoms which can only accrue from some important convictions becoming common * Aniong these must obtain the conviction that religion is the exclusive business of the bosom in which it is cherished , referable only to God and i nviolate to man ; and of course the preservation of this religious liberty must be dependent on its extension by each to all . Conviction must obtain , that luxury destroys tha

    happiness which labour can create ; that labour , properly , thai is justly , distributed is the privilege , not the penalty , of humanity-r ^ one of the first essentials to human enjoyment , giving edge tQ appetite and relish to reward . None must be exempt from labour , nor any loaded with it ; but , by distributing employment accords ing to capacity , make labour a source of universal satisfaction and a bond of universal union , realizing-, as regards the world ' s business , the old adage , that many hands make , light work /

    With these convictions , one ' man might believe in . purgatory , und another in predestination ,, and yet not war with eaqh othereach would follow his own peculiar form of worship , auul the fiat , as to its truth , would be removed to that sphere i # . wj ^ lji $ \* voice of man has no weight—with these convictions wtfi would desire only such leisure as healthy labour would furnish \\\ m With the means of enjoying . .. ,. ' /•

    None would be nM > re benefited by the cljaijgps consequent . p ^ these views than those miserable beings to whom , now , beJfoqg , tft $ th * supposed enviable * privilege of ewwptuNI fiPfift ( l ^ ft ¥ ^ i # WeH

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 777, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/21/