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portionate share in managing the concerns of that community , is an unfairness , the expediency of which would be an anomaly in the moral government of the world . Charles Fox once said , " that what was morally wrong , could nerer be politically
right . " He probably spoke like one of the prophets of old , and uttered a deeper wisdom than he apprehended . Utilitarian philosophers scorn , and have exploded such phrases as " natural and indefeasible rights ; " yet the expression is not a bad one for an expediency which arises from the constitution of our
nature , and is co-extensive with humanitv . AdoDtiner Home nature , and is co-extensive with humanity . Adopting Home Tooke ' s etymology , we may call what God and nature have ruled—the rights of man ; and they are paramount to all conventional regulations . On this broadest expediency rests the desirableness that laws which bind all should be assented
to by all ; and nations , like individuals , advance , though through many errors , to dignity and happiness , by the most efficient , eventually , of all means , —self-government . To foreign politics we will not now advert . No doubt , within the walls of parliament the name of Poland will be heard ; Poland , now nothing more than a name ; but what can be done , save to pronounce the funeral eulogy of a gallant people , and the sentence of humanity upon a bloody barbarian ' ? The
best time for interposition has gone by ; yet , if any service can be rendered to the cause of the civilized world against that of brute force , in its European outpost , there should be no slackness , and we believe there will be none , in a British House of Commons .
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70 Education Report .
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In this Report the Committee report that they are unable to report ; and content themselves with laying the evidence they have collected before the House , with the hope that the House will direct the farther prosecution of the inquiry next Session .
This ghost of a Heport is followed by a most substantial tail of between two and three hundred closely printed folio pages , consisting of an account of the examination of ten witnesses ; and truly the volume will be more fortunate than most of the fat folios amongst which it will repose . If it finds half that number of readers . We have been one of these five champions , and shall give a very brief account of our observations by the
• Report from Uie Select Committee on Bducation iu . &uglM * d and Wulea , together with the Minutes of Rvideuce , Appendix , and Index—ordered by tlie Houfle Of Commons to fee printed , 3 d August , 1 B 55 . No . 4-65 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1836, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2654/page/6/
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