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^^/^ mittwwi y tiirMig th 0 m *^ MthefavwmHtyl # A itidk + ^ gnfm ij ^ i imagination deifr ^ its efcjeot , and tfa »^ ^ fiQ ^ ou » ratst ^ fce y which we so freqtjently fe ^ e > of c fallingri ^ 4 ^^ H >» tead ofy as it shpuM ever be ^ rising ittfc ^ k xvtg : ¦ But , feay » ! aW Oth ^ r , evQji should a marriage prove un » uitabl « v a life of attujfgte hplpd to the attainmentof moral strength . It / i * not true ;? r < c « 1 $ ^ mistake to suppose that continued resistance to the action * > d #
unfavourable circumstances is a good : and tolerairce to inferiority ig roarae . Better be comparatively miserable with a Cdnsdoustu&g of inferior unfitneas , than comparatively what is called happy iti l&wdring yourself to it . I am supposing that the hope of ekvatiwg * it has b ^ en p roved a fallacy . No ; continued painful strug&fe'ttfr
more strengthens the mind , than continual painful effort strengthens the nuigcles ; it exhausts the energy of both . There must be hope * beyond ^ -thew must be something to stru ggle for , as welt as t # struggle aguinstv f ; Aikd what says society to help them out of their sufferhigb ? It says tliat the error shall be permanent—that it will visit with its direst vengeance those who dare to dispute the wisdom of ^ hfc * law it hath set op * It is to be adhered to with a teiwu ^ ity that
would ga to prove that the people are made for the good ^ of \ to& la « r ^ rather thanthe law made for the good of fchepeople ; It ^ cwv ' denans on 6 y jnirc- « md 'WelUntettiioned , to the compatrionsbi p ¦ a man unfit ted for her . She has not intellect sufficient to see th ^ imiuorality of her position ^ nor courage enough td free herself from iti It condemns another to the degradation of se € * 2 ing eoiflK ntunioa with , and being dependent upon , one who woiild avoid '
1 i * p . It encourages and legalizes the horrible transfoi * matibn-6 f ' man mta a mere animal . Where the moral and intellect mil qualities find no sympathy to warm them into progreSsioftrpdOF ^ pie too often , like the poor whose pleasures are ctreum&cribfcd / and only the inferior ones within reach , leave the fin ^ r part-dlf 1
their nature totally uncultivated , and deteriorate totr&rdfc th ^ hrute . Here , too , is the secret of that < drigiiial feiti * tlfcit ba ^ caused so many a theological dispute . H * re is the real wivAto ' against society ! This incompleteness of sympatftr ; this pr © v # M Idnce of solfish gratification , is the cause of tlib Urta ^ ct > utitit 5 fe wajrvvardtiesses , capriceSi and petulancies of children , ifcat ktt ^ feisib * ofteti puzzled physicians , metaphysicians , mothers ^^ a ^ nd ' fttrtwwi ' graftdmothers and ffratidfathers , and a whole hibe ttf ' UtkfteM ' &fldf * awirta t& boot . It is this which appears to ufc to heXiU the ttiietp s tkm , when the honest and mistaken social moralist tfcrttlil leAw 1
tbmgft as they are to the gradual action of-toimpfbttMnent feV e * h 4 cat » on . Were the Able migchieVmis result * the imhtfviXim oSdVke contracting partita themi ^ lved / thef ^ w ^ ht liev rtklm to *" * aoobi , tmt the te * k etil lies vn theh \ jurfrttonerto WHfatyhfl ^ oSm ** mHte # m ** rto ^ of things is to k 0 « pMm cawtat ^ awppiy ^^ fttiitahtef for education
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 801, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/45/
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