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    agaiart &e Bnotarape * if &oh hakte & *»> * % *** « M& 4 * g ^* T AJHiy \ ainl fie maat submit ; and he finds too late his error ia riot heeding the advice of Christ , f If ai * y man will sue tbee at the law and take away thy coat , give him thy cloak also . ' He too is > turned out of the box at last , to be made sport of by those yfho have fleeced him , and who will never let him go , as long as they can keep the shackle on him and still retain him in t ^ eir power . 'the box of social law is far more mischievous and miserable iu

    its consequences than any of the others ; because its infliction * are more generally diffused . There are so many classes of people who are subjected to its torture—a moral torture , worse to bear , and n ^ ore crippling to the energies of the mind and heart * than were the iniquitous inquisitorial torments that deformed and maimed the body . ' Society / c the world / s people / with the

    mysterious ' on < lit as a witness , have established an inquisition after the most rigid and unsparing Spanish policy . It is a selfielected judgment ; it employs masked witnesses ; it endeavours , like its prototype , to torture into falsehood ; and would doom its victims to cells of perpetual moral darkness , away from the sun and air , and all the precious influences of social life . Thus it dot * E , or would try to do , with those who dare to question it *

    established laws . Ai > d now how , and upon whom , does this last torture box act ? We will take , for instance , a girl brought up without any regard to the mere forms of society ; free to think , free to look , free to speak her thoughts , with this one object always before her—the desire after truth , to which she would look as the eagle looks upon the sun , whether soaring upward or taking a downward flight , always keeping that one light of life in view . The firet

    (part of her life is easy ; the child may do what in the woman may be conspicuous ;* and conspicuous for why ? Because it is without that worldly varnish which ' society' wears as a livery , to the injury , and sometimes destruction , of originality of character ; just as painting over a beautiful delicately-chiselled statue would destroy its sharpness . Women become , like soldiers ,

    so many slaves in uniform , to go through their various exercises ( though without ever * standing at ease' ) just as society naay bid . The single-hearted , the frank , the unsuspicious followers of their o > vn generous impulses , these are the selected victims * They are taught , that to exclaim wherever they find beauty , to yjfcld genuine admiration to whatever attracts their eye , to laap to ( do a service whenever they can , without respect to persons , i *

    extraordinary , ' ' eccentric , ' ' wikl , ' ' incautious . ' As the g * ri gpowfi up she finds a thousand checks to the naturally open-hearted eo > pression of l > er pure unquestionable feelings . Even the 41104 rigid cau c ^ eteet no fault in the feeling itself , but they ahalte thek ta * ada and load her be careful bow &he feyoka , < ¦ for fofur af t ) tfft world '—what she ftfcys , * far fear pf the world / In time she

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 799, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/43/