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fflarty , endurd mim capabilities s < rt » ewhat above the mere ^ laetktky that H * fc in a pair of laotg hind legs , are put to the torture-. of < tfo » box ; Ijqwthe- "nobler few , who havo no escape , are under tb ^ -iar flictiaiL , and how tiaeyarferior many are deteriorated &nd - reduced t « gtoveV wh ^ re tfiey should have leapt . ¦¦ . : '¦ ' , i ' There are boxes of various kinds . There is a box of Toryis m * Budabox of Episcopacy ; and there is a box of Logat injustice *
and a box of Social law ,, which is the most cruelly oppressive box of alL Into all these wrong * boxes , or boxes of wrong , many ; fin& their way without the hope of extrication , awhile to struggle with the circumstances around them , to ' kick against the pricks , * that is , to leap against the lid , and then to be turned out to perform a part in life > so fantastically untrue to the nature that should efhow forth in the glorious human creature , as to make the ' aegelfc weep / and demons shout!—Let us take a few instances .
There is the boy who begins life with a generous love oif Ws kindy who longs to be the righter of the injured , the regenerator of the degraded , the redeemer of the slave ; whose eyes flash at a tale of oppression , whose heart throbs at the recital 6 f a deed . of
high and noble daring . He reads again and again the page that records the fight of Thermopylae , and of the strife that nations bave made to be free ; and he has longed for the time to come over again that he might be a leader amongst them . His hedrt has flown with the arrow of Tell , or mourned over the fate o «
Emmet . He makes a vow , in all the fulness of an earnest , untouched , untried spirit , to dedicate himself , henceforward and for ever , to the « acred cause of freedom . He cannot control his « iithusiasm—it works out at every pore . In his college life he can scarcely keep it within the bounds of the prescribed decorum . He gets reprimanded as a revolutionary republican , and many
other long hard names , which his tutors can say and spell , it is true , but of the spirit of which they are utterly ignorant ; and he is almost equally so , as his after-life shows . However , he standsSt all , for at college ., resistance to the local powers that be is a : sort of virtue , and as there is no influence of the world upon hitoi , he weathers out the gale of his tutor ' s displeasure , and comes sailing
out in gallant style . We have not time to elaborate on the several phases he p asses through before his enthusiasm vanishes . The promise of place or of fortune from some old Tory Uncle , or mothers brother ' s cousin , or the dread of losing caste by associating with those of an inferior rank in society to his owtt > whose strong minded sturdy demands for equal rights somewhat shock , hihi ; < lr ,
they do not quite come up to . his idea of the grateful recipients bf all his numerous proposals fou the unproYenaerst pf their condition ; whjo , jn fact , he expecteid were to stand by imwitite while he fought their battle for thenx , for the idea ne ^ rfer entered ihia head xhey wete fully eaual and iready totfiffiktiit for themodL ^ m , « ad m > curtail hia * of that large rpropottian of honour and fp Wtvtude
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 797, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/41/
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