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haps , the cleverest , certainly the most highly finished of them all . It should , however , be read entire . The conception ( if a work of imagination ) is verv fine ; the accurate perception and delineation of character , ( if a portrait ) equally fine . The leading idea is to show the influence of the physical state on
the mind and affections . The heroine is unexpectedly restored to health and beauty , after years of apparently hopeless illness , and consequent extreme plainness , almost amounting to ugliness . The result is , her desertion of the man whom , in her suffering , she had appeared to love , and who loved her devotedly . The clear yet subtle touches by which her nature is
shown to be at the same time highly intellectual , imaginative , aspiring , and intensely selfish , can only be appreciated by being read continuously ? and we destroy none of the pleasure of any readers by this notice , for the catastrophe is revealed from the beginning . We should like to see the converse of this story
worked out by the hand of a master ; the change of a cold , unsusceptible , unimpassioned being , into the opposites of all these conditions , by the conscious possession of a greater power to give happiness . It would be as true of the finer natures , whose love alone deserves its high name , as this is of the selfish ; and the wish would still be , like Portia ' s —
" For you t € I would be trebled twenty times myself ; " A thousand times more fair ,, ten thousand times " More rich . " We take leave of Mr . Willis with feelings of gratitude for the pleasure which we have derived from the perusal of his highly interesting volumes , and with anticipations of future enjoyment from his writings .
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Cursory R § mark * on Prejudice . 365
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( Continued from last Month . ) With regard to the clergy ;—this is an important , but mo 9 t unpleasant part of the subject . It is difficult to write any comments which shall not be offensive to a very great number of persons , in whose consideration priests are so identified with the religion of which they are ministers , and the God they preach , that any disparagement of the order appears little less than blasphemous . But this is prejudice . It is very possible to think and write with severity against the priesthood as a body of men , without meaning the slightest disrespect to religion in the abstract . Upon this principle , nothing in the following remarks must be considered as applying to the spirit of
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CURSORY REMARKS ON PREJUDICE AND ON EDUCATION AS A CAUSE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/37/
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