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Grahame ' g work . The few extracts that we have given will show that his style is simple and clear ; and he has the merit of liberality and candour . Op one point only he appears in some degree biassed by peculiar opinions ; it is with a lenient end reluctant hand that ne details the errors of the Puritans ; and his own religious belief inclines him occasionally , when
endeavouring to explain the causes of human miseries , to get o \ er the difficulty by referring to the " depravity of human nature / ' His volumes may be considered rather dry , in con * sequence of his elaborate minuteness , but they will well repay a careful study . They form a valuable history of an interesting period , of which no authentic or well-digested record has hitherto existed .
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Cursory Remark * on Prejudice . 411
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u As there ate persons in the world of so mean and abject a spirit that they rather choose to owe their subsistence to the charity of othen than by industry to acquire some property of their own , so there are many more who may be called beggars with regard to their opinions * Through laziness and indifference al > out Truth they leave to others the trouble of digging for this commodity ; they can have enough at second hand to serve their occasions . Their concern is not to know what is
true , but what is said and thought on such a subject , and their under * standing , like their clothes , is cut according to the fashion . " Reid on the Intellectual Powers—Essay VI » None of us are without prejudices , nor , perhaps , is it expedient that we should be , tor some are amiable , and others save
us much mental labour . According to the strict derivation of the term , all opinions founded upon the authority of others , and for which we have not the data in our own understanding —solutions , in fact , which we use without having worked the problems , are prejudices . But to the usual sense of the word the few following remarks will be confined .
As we do not bring into the world with us innate ideas or principled we cannot , of course , be born with prejudices , but so soon as the mind becomes capable of association , it becomes obnoxious to their influence , and probably those are most powerful with which it has been earliest imbued . Some of
these , as before stated , are harmless , and even amiable ; for there is no need of philosophic investigation in after-life to confirm such first precepts as keeping our hands from picking and stealing , love for truth , &c . But there is a sad inconsistency in the prevailing and legitimate systems of education . We are taught to reverence truth , and at the same time
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CURSORY REMARKS ON PREJUDICE , AND ON EDUCATION AS A CAUSE . With a few notes of parallel readings .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/47/
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