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A Itatefil * philosopher has lately discovered that there ie a portion of phosphorus m the brain , and that people of talent have more of this phosphorus than others ^ It is certain that have what we may , it is equivalent to not having it if we do not bring it into action . Let us then shake the stagnant contents of that wondrous phial the human body , and see what the agitation of the compound may effect .
I have amused more than I have edified by my idea , expressed in a former paper , of a cobbler and his wife enjoying a philosophical treatise © r a fine poem . Let the spirit of Bloom field , and a greater than he , Holcroft , answer these cavillers . It is not labomr , nor any kind of labour , which lowers or incapacitates the human mind ; it is only excessir e labour , or excessive laziness > associated with vile habits and baneful circumstances , which does
that . An individual may always dignify his duties by his character . That mere opinion will confer dignity , we have sufficient proof in the quantity of idle dirty dignity there is in the world . For truth's sake let some effort be made to move opinion in favour of those things which really deserve to be dignified .
Education and the diffusion of opinions , both based on the principles of love and justice , must be unceasingly employed to prepare the way for the changes in demand , and , 1 hope , in progress . To legislate for the adult race is one thing for the rising race . It is as much as can be done in the first case to modify prejudices , and to ward off the efforts made to obstruct and
subverse what the old deem the dangerous tendencies of the new philosophy . It is as much as can be done in the second to im ~ plant just impressions , and direct the practical working out of tHmc Htapressions . As for the newness of the philosophy of which tb 4 aged entertain so much fear , the only feature of novelty about it is its diffusion . The light formerly confined to the college and the cloister is now breaking into the cabin and beaming in the
cottage . The principal advocate for the plan of universal cooperation decin *> in the boundless benevolence of his heart , that a set of circumstances might be created , at the p resent moment , amid which the most opposite elements of society might be harmoniously
blended— -in feet , that this world might be made one great bowl of punch * in which the sweets , sours , bitters , and what not , should all be concocted into a most delightful beverage . Would any pledgfe bi « V at this giant bowl , more gladly than myself ? Alan , far fi ? nd humanity , how much it can conceive , how little it can execute !
If the * power which said ' Let there be light / and there was tigfct , woiiM « ay ? LrVibtre be peace , lore , and united labour on earth / peace , love , and united labour there would be * But it is only 4 Gtoibi { ttetice which work * by miracles , man must work by
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 780, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/24/
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