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laeaswres—? ra » n and sltm—the srionefr-liebegips wilhjgood'Otie ^ a » d the mbre perseveringly he follows tbem up , tfee better- ^ ¦ - A rational discontent , if such a term may fee * QJewfeql me , I desire to see spreading more and more among the people **—tfaai is , a deep consciousness that they are not in their true poahiow , accompanied with a high determination to place themselves in
it ; and not to attempt so doing by any of the violence which has branded them with the name of mobility , but by the steady onward march of mustered energies , and improved faculties ; by a quiet contempt for monarchical , aristocratical , hypocritical parade , and an equally quiet evidence of a determination to serve and support real power . This will win for them the name of nobility ; and it will be the only time that the word will have had a
legitimate application . Education is the grand equalizer . That is already felt . When , till now , did the people , with a sense of moral and intellectual elevation , look empty rank in its phantom face ? To what is this new capacity , arising among a people inoculated for so many
centur ies with the virus of aristocracy , to be traced ? To the dissemination of that which is power alike to peer and peasant , ^—power , unfortunately unto even that wretch who finds it strong to sustain the weight and the weakness of his dishonesty , but which is power imperishable , and irresistible , when united with highmmdedness .
Real power is the power which God has given to each individual , and which , by right exercise , and indefatigable cultivation , that individual has improved to the utmost . The emulation to be encouraged is emulation of ourselves—every new effort , every new year , should find us saying , ' This shall be better than all before . ' In this spirit let us begin the year now rapidly ad- » vancing to us , and remember , in the words of Hazlitt , ' thatthe more we do , t he more we can do . '
A people that feel the dignity of human natui ^ , and resolve i 6 act up to it , have nothing to fear from kingcraft , priestcraft , ot lordcraft . It is men that make the strength of a nation , and riot its ' monarch ; it is the people that bulwark it , not the pr iests not the peers . And in this hour , when the pulse of oppressed humanity fe beating high , and the blood of privileged humanity is running
cold—for there is not a crown that does not quake , nor a titled that does irot tremble , at the rising of the giant power of maf * - ^ in this hour be not the supine , the paralyzed , the oppressed , ' o # rather the perverted , portion of the human species tbrgtotteiv * & forget themselves , tret women , who have met froiti teenr 4 bfc injustice which roea themselrgs have met frort * kings and conqueror * , loathe to be the wives of king-sla * es » aid lor& * U * era , or to b * cot * e mother * of less than men . ) mr ' ¦ •'
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 781, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/25/
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