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and then save or guide some state or stranger vessel ; but a good man , in his lowlier destiny , is like the household fire , doing mtfce in detail- —more perpetually , perhaps more effectually *—the great man is the more sublime , the good man the more beaut **
foi moral object ; the one excites curiosity and admiration , the other commands sympath y and esteem . Let us not bt dazzled by the glare which > a fiae position iinparta , or forget that the patent Ties in the principle , and the principle of good is as warm , though not as wide , in the fire ox \ tbs hearth as in the beacon on the height . Let every man
put his hand upon his heart , that vessel which holds the light of his life , and let every woman do likewise , and then let them ask themselves for what purpose the light and fire there is deatgned . Not for self-consumption—confined to that , both were 8 % e& bifrnt out * leaving the heart to be a calcined cinder in the breast , powerless to impart pleasure and incapable of feeling it . Tie , Cbe vital warmth , the vital light are meant to keep alive
and in activity the pulses of affection—filial and fraternal * connpfoialaad parental , human and divine— -in fact , to keep in flow tne tide of love wbich fed first at the fountain of a mother ' s breast , spreads diversely round the creature ' s heart , and rises tlieottgfe irresistible deduction to the Infinite—the Universal . * Shall any * then * despise himself—believe himself disqualified foi the appointed work of all , because accident has made him a in
tfllerofitefoHy ^ worker iro n , orwhat not—because it has cast Ms lot in some little hamlet or obscure portion of a town ? Cannothe still look up to God as his father , and around to men as his brethren ; and , it he be worthy , can they deny him ? I know it / mfl be said that they do—worse , that if poverty have blurred his aipect and cloudea his path , they wrong , and scorn , and
skuq him . None feel more acutely than I do the unjust an * rangementa which dootn the multitude to toil and privation , and allow the few luxurious leisure and superabundance ; but let me be allowed to say , that in any situation worth will amice itseK felt ; if it be true and consistent it will triumph over the assaults of falsehood , and though it meet not the reward it
j&Gii tM , it . will gain that which is a great moral staff in the hands of the very worst-shod traveller along life ' s journey—he vriffl gain irresistibly respect among his conventional equals , arid co « ftiitan < i it , in epite or prejudice , from his conventional superkunsi « t - The good , ttien , and the solace of dispensing high example , i « ini thejpower of all or any ; he is a real benefactor of the aHnmanity to which he belongs , who stands out
uooatentatiattmtf in the beautiful fight of a good example . Example spbaks \ wiftheoi a tongue ^ aod amplifies and exemplifies all that tn ^ uo ^ caxi lia ^ du . > - . ¦ - \ . . . , , . r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 682, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/30/
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