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no objection to the latter conviction : there is probably a wrong somewhere , and to resist and remove it , if possible , is tne part of common -sense , and the unalienable impulse of the principle which is ever seeking happiness ; but let us do ourselves and our better gifts the justice to appreciate good in the same proportion , at least , that we deprecate evil , and let us guard against the effects of habit to produce indifference to good , and ingratitude regarding it , with no less pertinacity than that with which -we never fail to murmur and remark on any infliction , however 114311 O I
There is a very simple method by which we may quicken our better feelings in this respect . Let us only fancy ourselves enjoying suddenly , and for the first time , any one of our habitual blessings—the warm heart of the parent—the friend—which we forget to value at its worth , because it is so unalterably , so
unalienably our own ! But , to pass from this best of boons , to the common comforts and conveniences . What to the unassisted savage are a hatchet and a knife?—treasures which make his very heart leap with delight . Civilized man never notices these useful agents , unless with displeasure if they happen to be blunt . What to the footfoundered traveller is a cast from a common cart ?—with what
unconsciousness is the sumptuous carriage or convenient hackneycoacli occupied ! What an event was it , of old , considered , to find any one who was journeying homeward , and would undertake to convey a letter to dear and far distant friends ?—who ever tbfinks now of one of the best of our social institutions , the
Poat ^—save when they have occasion to grumble at a heavy or &tefr > d * atiged postage ?—while a Parliamentary friend shall ensure htwfeelf more reproach for refusing one frank , than gain gratitude byjriving- one hundred . Oh ! that all who call themselves Reformers—now a pretty large number—would throw the whole balance of personal discontent into the scale of public affairs , and endeavour to prove in the domestic and friendly circle how sweet it is to live in
cofitineal or occasional intercourse with beings full of the reJig / on of personal contentment ; with those who hold all the happiness enjoyed bs the boon of their good fortune , not the recompense of their good deeds—who regard the ills which will arise , even in the fairest destinies , as shadows in tne picture necessary to produce the lights more brilliantly , and thus ever meet tne foggy folk of society with a spirit which will dissipate the density of eVen that gloom amid which they sit , in the silent eloquetice oif the « raila . " M . L . O .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 634, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/46/
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