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    almost relapsed into obscurity , when a most iniquitous and miserable persecution ot our popular government has given their school fresh splendour . You know how our police violated their peaceful retreat at Menihnontant , put a guard at their convent door , and declared that they should receive no visitors ! All this smells strongly not of a French ; but of a Turkish or Algerine ,

    government . The motive of these majestic interferences of our police is , that these men were guilty of the atrocious crime of receiving every Sunday perhaps a hundred workmen of the vicinar Fauxbourg , whom they preached to , and whom , among singing hymns and processions , they directed to work at building a grand amphitheatre , called Le temple de ISAvenir . But what augmented to a direful degree the crime of the St . Simonians , was , that after

    the day ' s work , they gave all these workmen a plain but substantial dinner , cooked by the philosophers in person . Are not these crimes that Louis Philip ' s government ought to repress with all the strength of law ? If , in all this , the St . Simonites are absurd ; I should like to know what is the government 1 As for the new philosophical school of M . Charles Fourier , and of his journal called Le Phalanstere 9 ( solid phalanx , ) though I have read his numbers , I confess my utter ignorance of his principles

    and views . The most obscure and mystical part of the St . Simonite system is light itself compared to M . Fourier ' s discovery . All I can make out , far certain , is , that the last is labouring hard to have the disposal of a square league of land , near Paris , fit for all cultivation ; and there he engages to form a colony of men , women , and children , who will enjoy endless felicity , and abund ^ ance of all good things both for mind and body . This is certainly worth the trial . You see that if France is not ere soon

    completely reformed , it is not for lack of reformers . A more important subject is , that I have to announce to you with great satisfaction , that the first labours of our French Unitarian Association are at the point of appearing;—I mean the two first tracts ; oqe iqtitled , Sur Vetat de la religion en France ' , the other Profession de la religion Protestante Unitaire . We anticipate great good from these publications . Every thing here is ripe for views of rational Christianity , and they alone will effectually satisfy the public mind . O . * ' i ¦ . . ¦ ¦

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    570 French Protestantism :

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    ON SEEING A GLOW-WORM IN A CHURCHYARD .

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    Ah ! what could tempt thee here , Thou little reveller of the night ! Was it to mock a tear Thou rear / dst thy gem of liquid light ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 570, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/66/