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    very significant speculations from the Journal which published the foregoing declaration . When men make a declaration against a system , it does not therefore follow that they should take any practical measure in order to give it effect . Opinions are as often registered that governments and statesmen may know how subjects and citizens feel on matters affecting

    the public interests , as with any intention of enforcing them by ulterior steps . The latter course , however , is sometimes taken ; but it may be safely assumed , that if those respectable householders who have signed the document to which we have been referring , should go a step further , it would only be in the shape of a passive resistance to the compulsory enforcement , such as that offered by the Quakers , who are generally supposed to act with great mildness and discretion . They

    submit to be distrained rather than pay what their consciences tell them is an unjust demand . Heretofore , though their firmness was approved of , there was little more than a lip-sympathy for what they endured . It would not be so , however , if men of all sects were resolved to follow their example . If the resolution to submit to distress and distraint ,

    rather than yield to what was considered an unwarrantable demand , should become general , it is likely that a determination not to purchase a neighbour ' s goods would become correspondingly universal . How desirable it would be if such a change in the law were made as would prevent any understanding from being acted upon of the nature to which we point—and so we hope there will ! *

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    l&f On the State of Religion in France .

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    When the revolution of Eighty-nine took place in France , the liberal and serious part of the English nation looked with an extreme anxiety to the result of it , as it would affect the religious feelings and habits of the people . That revolution was hailed as the rising of the ' day-star of liberty , ' j which would enlighten mankind , not in France only , but beyond those ' everlasting hills '

    which on two sides bound its view , and over the waters of the magnificent Rhine ; it was thought , too , that it would shed a yet brighter light across the channel which divides it from a land whose inhabitants had long boasted of their civil and religious privileges . Not only did we expect that the abodes of man would have to rejoice in the possession of peace and plenty , freed

    from the oppressions of tyranny and the shackles of superstition , but also that minds long shut up in a heathenish darkness , would become free , would open upon the rich and beautiful works of God , would appreciate their value , and would rise from the contemplation of them to that Almighty One , who ^ in the returns of gratitude , would become the only object of adoration and of praise to the intellectual work of his hands . The shackles of tyranny did fall off ; the oppressions of superstition ceased- —man became free * But the revulsion which his

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    ON THE STATE OF RELIGION IN FRANCE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1832, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1806/page/52/