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    danghteis mill vetfy * often hare ; their inn n n n TliiuHu i jufcyW rery oftea get poorer . Fourthl y : the Tvorld is rary igttorta oancenahng * p < jrerty * « , vtoiao * JPovetty , like happiness , is comparative . The division u *§ society into its numerous classes is caused by the d \ vim \< mnt

    propert y * Some persons may say no , and refer yovt to 4 h # tftbie ot precedency . It is a fallacy . Property is almost always tile cause of , and always the true basis of , rank . It i& thin ignorance that the true division of society is determined * t > y property , that causes so many mistakes and so much misery ? n > Some men , and women too , are ever anxious to nieve ittr . m division of Bociety , the members of which possess atad p ^ nd more money than they , the said men and women , can or ought to spend ; others—very few , and they are called names- ^ prefet to move in a division of society a degree , and in some ^ e * td # many degrees , under their legitimate qualification of property * A scale of the divisions of society would be a most Useful things and at the time of the trial of the murderer ThwtcU ? it was supposed that a data had been obtained from wfcicirtt

    might be formed . A witnefes , on being interrogated respiting the character of the prisoner Thurtell , answered , that ' hekaa gtway 9 considered him respectable , as he kept a gig ;? '< N * w * taking the power of gi ^ -keeping as a fixed point , and * marking it " Respectable ,, " it is very plain that a scale mtgtaqte formed upwards to a coach-and-six , with cmt ~ ridem ^ a nd idefatd '

    wards to a child ' s carriage drawn by a btUy-goatj ^ It ^ wiU ^ iM alkyw myself to expatiate further upon the beautiftd « i « npHeftf and mrtiiity of such a property-nleter * ' nrn t vai to N 4 > w > 1 should wish to impress these prefatory ob&fervatl&lfa concerning property very seriously upon yon ; for , i ^ Withit * » tood ^ they supply a key to character , the want of ^ wtbch cimsimany people to go through life rrnnrlrring ifhui ttfctir feiiowHecemfcures are about I Allow me to give you an ilhif tffcUlqft

    of my jmeaning . The only son of a nobteman , likely to' ittteerit Talrtricbes , and having open to his ambition the higheet b ^ 0 M of thfe stute , and the only son of a tradesman in > « . * eauntff ^ town , likely to inherit hi ? parent ' s savings , and having opfeirJW Itis ambition the mayoralty , are persons to be treated Jpf tfcb same method . Never forget that poverty is cotnpeirativei ^ ifcn

    anoount of property which to one man appears penuryv « m 4 w for another man , in another division of society , tkeis f ^ ktii respect and consideration' —perhaps more than - the tvchor Mlb oajiobtain in that class in which he moved ; ¦ >><* ' ur [ jo < u ^ nn ; Ifryiou can comprehenid this , and have ptrfficignftttaaty tliMQf # . goodr-scMse * itd goad / temper in about equal ' pkcipotiimiBp UvWM , upon it , your , way la very clear before you , ' ) dnd Ae < ii ^ s * li ^ l

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 757, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/41/