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n iPoytia knew well that her appeal was vain , md prohk \ 4 y m > lime jaardiscipline of life could elevate the &tefil cdd * SfrylWk irtom the moral point at which he stood , to comprehend lieriafcftffinar crren in the least degree . The education of the human race is slow , and probably it is
best that it should be so . Man cannot bear sudden * transitions either bodily or mental , and to try and push him on futfclttfr fifth he kas strength to go , is to retard his progress , and cause fresh error * . Mr Owen ' s confidence , however , in the possibility of the immediate accomplishment of his views , if it have the ill effect of procuring a hasty derision of his system , has the good effect of producing in himself an unwearied zeal in the promulgation of all his benevolent principles . k Besides those points which we have noticed , we demur to a pG&sage which occurs at p . 94 : —
** The religions founded under the names of Jewish , Budh , Jehovah , Oon or dii * ist , or Mahomet , or any other , axe all composed of human & # & . h * opposition to nature ' s eternal laws ; and when , these laws are Anafytefclj they amount only to three absurdities ,- —three gross impositions tijtott the lg » nor&t > cfe or inexperience of mankind : three errors now dimly tp be detected by the simple experiment of each individual himffil £ i The fundamental doctrines or laws of all these religions are ^ -first , Jfol ^ ye in my doctrines , as expounded by my priests , from my sacred b pf dt ?; , second , Feel as these doctrines , thus expounded , direct you to fg ej ; and wVrd , Support my ministers for thus instructing- you . * If you tnus Faithmlly perfoi * m these three things in my name , '—say the priests of all these religions— ' you will have the greatest merit in this world , add an everlasting reward in the next . All religions , and all codes of Idw are built on the preceding dogmas , and all presuppose the ori g inal p ^ wcrt * in tAAh to believe and feel as he likes . Now the facts and laws of tttfure , w > uch constitute the moral science of man , demonstrate that all belief oar mental convictions , and all physical feelings are instincts of ittmfen nature , and form the will ; it follows that the three fundamental qbjbfm ^ s , of all religions have emanated from ignorance of the org&nix * - iion of man , and of the general laws of nature ; hence the confusion in attmiman affairs , the inutility of all human laws , and the irrational and miserable condition of all human affairs .
Christ nowhere gives the last of the three above injunctions , rior are the two others coupled with the mention of priests . * With the exception of what we have named , we consider Mr Owen ' s book most valuable . It is a clear and true account of tofcne of the fundamental laws of human nature , and contains slight sketches of the effects of man ' s ignorance of them , or dis-— - —¦—— ¦ ¦ — - ¦ ¦ - - - r — ^ , T- - -
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\ T % 6 The Book af th * Ntfb Moral Wottd .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 746, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/30/
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