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tions of the Creator , in addition to his revealed will , and to recommend obedience to both . They exercise so vast an influence over the best members of society , that their countenance may hasten , or their opposition retard , by a century , the practical adoption of the natural laws as sound guides of conduct . " " If the excessive toil of the manufacturer be inconsistent with
that elevation of the moral and intellectual faculties of man which is commanded by religion , and if the moral and physical welfare of mankind be not at variance with each other , ( which they cannot be , ) the institutions of society , out of which the necessity for that labour arises , must , philosophically speaking , be pernicious to the interests of the state as a political body , and to the temporal welfare of the individuals who compose it ;
and whenever we shall be in possession of a correct knowledge of the elements of human nature , and the principles on which God has constituted the world , the philosophical evidence that these practices are detrimental to our temporal welfare , will be as clear as their inconsistency with our religious duties . "
" Until , however , divines shall become acquainted with this relation between philosophy and religion , they will not possess adequate means to render their precepts practical in this world ; they will not carry the intellectual perceptions of their hearers fully along with them ; they will be incapable of controlling the force of the animal propensities ; and they will never lead society to the fulfilment of its highest destinies . "
After demonstrating , on the soundest philosophical grounds , that no form of government can be suited to the nature of man , unless it be calculated to permit the legitimate use , and restrain the abuse of all his faculties and capacities , Mr . Combe winds up this able , learned , and practically useful work , by presenting his readers with the following cheering prospect of the happy
results to be anticipated from the universal diffusion of a sound and useful knowledge : " When schools and colleges shall expound the various branches of philosophy , as portions of the Creator ; when the pulpit shall deal with the same principles , show their practical application to man ' s duties and enjoyments ,
and add the sanctions of religion to enforce their observance ; and when the busy scenes of life shall be so arranged as to become the field for the practice at once of our philosophy and our religion , then man will have assumed his station as a rational being , and Christianity will have achieved her triumphs . " Leamington Spay Feb . 1 , 1836 .
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158 On the Conttitutton of Man .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/30/
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