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intellectually , and who most respectably swell the ranks of reform , must not believe that political Interests are their only or their greatest interests ; public importance must be based upon private worth , and private worth is made up of much that is minute , and though minute , important to the human
character ; general courtesy , social kindness , christianly forbearance , temperance , and integrity in the small as well as large concerns of life , are points which it is eminently essential that those in the advance of their class should hold oat hi example to their class , and not only must they seek to do this , bat shun
to imitate the ill example ( though it be clothed in a little elegance ) of the richer classes . / The people of every nation , like the horse and the elephant , need but to understand their own strength , individually and collectively , to throw off the harness and housings * to defy the whips and spurs by which they have been governed , for the selfish purposes of some , to the injury of all . A people which
knows its own strength has no enemy to fear but itself . Strength * 29 or # ty i * nothing , or worse than nothing , since , if the wisdom t «> ajpply and guide it be wanting , it may , as we see done every day , be turned against its possessor by those who have no strength but the strength of cunning ; no wisdom but
the skill to take advantage of ignorance . To talk of human rights , or the remedy of human wrongs , were as fruitless and as disheartening & task as to'teach music to the deaf , did such discourses address none but the rulers and lords of the land . To the usurpers atid apprdpriators of our " hunting grounds ?' appeals tre perpetually being made , and remonstrances urged , tec a use with tnem appears to lie power
and the means of redress . Nor let these appeals and remonstrances cease their iteration . The arguments which fall as ineffectually on the conventionally high as rain on an oil silk umbrella , descend upon the conventionally low Itkfe the fresh dews upon the grass ; And the power which 4 « apparent and nominal in kings and their counsellors , in lords and
landholders , is , though latent , innate and real in the people . 7 b * people must redress themselves , and the ballot is the bundle or the engine whTcTTlhey must work to that effect . But at the same time that they are directing their energies to these political objects , let them not forget the under current of do * mastic and social life—if th * y seek a high station , let them
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 684, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/32/
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