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lltiMitlfrtl M&m&yxfaiiri&'wdp ; m ** S |* iy * fcfa ^ ^ ttibdywti ^^^ reb m tokf profounde&t dfepths forthetraegoldfrhich farnkfres torth the current coin of the realm of intellect ; jihikua * tht ^ ists , ' trhdse hearts Are the urns wherein is contained thai allholy precious love , which has been created for the healing of the
nations / from whence flows a never-failing stream io fertt \ iz°crt » y and tnake cities joyful—Pull up pen , lest yoa canter ycmr r ^ aklers over ; your head . There—pause a minute , take breath . Ifctid now what think you , one and all , is it not an odd siibject ?—VfThe Wonderful Fleas ! ! *
; You , who can find an interest in , and point a morality from , the me&nestthing that finds a place in this beautiful world ^* -which is so fceautifiil because there is harmony in all things from the Highest to the lowest ; you , who love to trace throughout creation the handwriting of God , rather than the superscription of the
devil > in a word , who delight to dwell on the everything of good , Tattler than the worse-than-nothingness of evil ; you will not turn away whien I say , * Come and let us reason together / and see if we isatmot find something to repay us in the ' odd subject / beyond ifesi first somewhat uninviting aspect . in
; Ev ^ ry one has seen Regent-street , or in other parts of the town , a large placard headed with a representation of something Kke a lobster , with something like a man on its back , followed by a . long description of the wonderful feats of those little lively tenants of a small space in creation , whose souls Pdter Pindar , id > die person of Sir Joseph Banks , doomed to everlasting * perdi >
tion . Tbe placard serves as an invitation-card to an exhibition , iwhere you may see these heads of the sect of the junipers , at one -time drawing a carriage , at another dancing a quadrille , and performing all sorts of , to them most unnatural , antics , within the ^ due . Emits prescribed by their master , ( although without their accustomed bounds , ^ so that the imagination is tasked in vain to discover the secret of their subordination . And it would not be ^ easily guessed , though it is now generally known . The unfortu'n&te little victims , after being made prisoners , are secured in a Lbaij j just sufficiently high to let them leap up , that they may be { knocked down . After repeated endeavours to continue their
ao'Ciiktomed rapid way of getting over the ground , ( after all they we tbe GmAy true seven leagued booters , and free-booters too ^) jiiey cease n 6 t only to hope for * the promise of their sprijs o / biit tp aprii » g at ail ^ and thus are brought by continual blows , to a , * typidfiitaJte of living death , without even enjoying their liberty in
th * i ormd > yeaf * jf four , so peculiarly their privilege . If I wene i * ni # ilg 9 k them > b f fore I would succumb to such tyranny , I would , if ) there y ^ rfevantage ground sufficient , leap up again and again lUU « L « da 8 hod my briain * out- ! Better so than deteriorate my own «« lWer it 1 w « uidbfi for my persecutors ono flea away / while I lilwmiBb / rhe at rest . ' And now \\ ert ug lodk ftroand , and sf * hmm
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 796, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/40/
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