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Whiter thfcre is a renewal of the conflagrations -which last yea * tipread terror through the agricultural districts . By the light of thos £ fires we ought to read the condemnation of that brutalizing system which withholds from the peasantry the food both of body and of mind . The manufacturing poor are better instructed 5 and , consequently , their sufferings have , in comparison ^ been attended
with but little wanton destruction . But their knowledge will become a dangerous power , unless more be done to better their condition . The light which " serves only to discover sights of woe , " will but excite the sense of oppression and the thirst for retribution . The Bristol riots exhibit the temporary power of a class which permanently exists , and whose existence is most disgraceful to a Christian community . It was the work of beings whose
Support is plunder and whose happiness is brutal sensuality . Are all our laws , and institutions , and preachings , to end in the creation of such characters from generation to generation ? Is society never to learn the extent of its influences over its children , and the solemnity of its responsibility ? Even now our shortsightedness and prejudices have produced a new crime for which a name was to be derived from its first
convicted perpetrator . While exacting of the medical profession an accurate knowledge of the human frame , we have made the means of acquiring that knowledge a punishable offence , and indirectly offered a premium for the murders which have consequently been committed . The Burking of last year might have been prevented
by the proposed Anatomical Bill of the year before . And to all these plagues , physical and moral , raging amongst the great mass of the people , there is superadded an indistinct apprehension of the ravages of pestilence , occasioned by the appearance on our coast of the mucn-dreaded Cholera . Would that there were no greater evil to be dealt with . We have enumerated sufficient indications
to every one possessed of the spirit of Christ of the work which his Father hath given him to do . " Fast days will not help . Prayers , like the confessions of murderers , acknowledging fallacious sins and blinking real crimes , and ascribing human calamities to divine vindictiveness , are not the means to be employed . We
should be up and doing . Every rational effort should be made to grapple with the evils of ignorance and poverty . For this purpose the associating principle should be called into full operation . Every facility should be given for the diffusion of information . The hostile and bitter feelings which exist in the different classes of society , should be met with the frank kindness which disarms them , and leads to that mutual confidence without
which no great good can be effected . The Political Unions are excellent machinery for this purpose , though neglected or opposed by too many of those whose influence might turn them to the best account . S 6 it ever is . The obstacles to works of benefic ' etiCfc are scarcely ever so formidable in those on whom the goad
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10 fjftite und Prospect * of the County
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/10/
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