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    taught that the new covenant would become no less antiquated than the old covenant . By them , too , it remained always the same ceconomy of the same God—always ( if I may allow , them to speak in my language ) the same plan of the general education of the human race . S . 89 . —But they were precipitate : they fancied they could make their cotemporaries , who were scarcely beyond a state of childhood , without preparation , and without knowledge , at

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    once men worthy or their third age . S . 90 . —And this made them enthusiasts . The enthusiast has often a just view of futurity , but he cannot wait for it : he wishes to hasten this futurity , and to hasten it through himself . What nature does in thousands of years is to ripen in the moof his existence : for what does it profit him if that which he recognises for the better does not in his lifetime too become the better ? -Will he himself come again ? Does he expect to come again ? Strange that this enthusiasm alone will no longer be the fashion among any enthusiasts ! S , 91 . —Eternal providence go on in thy unperceivable step I

    Only do not allow me to doubt of thee , because thy step is unperceivable . Let me not doubt of thee , even if thy step should appear to go backward ! It is not true that the shortest line is always the strait one .

    S . 92 . —Thou hast so much to bring with thee in this thy eternal path , and hast so many digressions to make ! And how ? If it were now ascertained that the vast and slowlv-moving wheel which brings the race nearer to its perfection , can be set

    m motion only by smaller and more rapid wheels , each of which works in the same machine to the same purpose ? S . 93 . —Just so ! The same path over which the race is run till its termination , must be trod by each individual , the *> ne later , the other earlier .

    C How run through in one and the same life ? Can he in € C the same life have been a Jew in sense , and a Christian in «< intellect ? Can he have gone beyond both in the same « life ?" S , 94 . —Not that precisely ? But why should not each individual man have been more than once present in this world ?

    S . 95 . —Is this hypothesis on that account so ridiculous because it is the eldest ? because the human understanding was at once satisfied with it , before it > vas scattered or weakened by the sophistry of the schools ? S . 96 . —Why may not I already have passed through all the degrees of my improvement which mere temporal rewards and punishments could bring me tiirough I

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    472 The Education of the Human Race .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 472, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/24/