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    Children in years of stfhodl dkcipliii ^ ^ od beWeeiJ the le ^ sfetivefenaetosieftt of our Social state . It is certainly trtie , what Has often beenre # etaed / tb& sf we were now to do away at oniee With every sort of punishmenty incalculable evils would ensue to society ; but let it be remembered , that if we go on in the same course of proceeding , we shall be involved deeper and deeper into that corruption which now already seems to be overwhelming ^—unless it be possible to train the rising generation in such a manner , that the majority will not stand in need of those coercive laws by which order is now but ' faintly maintained . If we do not from this side obtain an improvement in the social state , the false remedy will soon so much increase the evil , that no cure is any

    more possible . The question then is , whether it be possible to train our children so that they will do right , independently of the dangers which they may incur from police-officers , law-courts , and quarter-sessions . If we be able to do so , if we succeed in awakening motives in the hearts of the young ones superior to the vile motive of fear , then we may hope that the state of society

    will again be consolidated ; but , if we go on in the manner in which we have done—if we make the motive of fear still the predominant motive in our schools , it will remain the predominant motive in after-life . Now , while on one hand all the means which man can employ against man are of a finite and limited nature , the course of evil in the human heart ia indefinite ; so ' that ,

    continuing in the same direction in which society is now proceeding * , ' the time must infallibl y arrive when all the checks of civil power will be of no avail , when vice ana corruption will be as well' secured , nay ; moresecured / than virtue and uprightness . We have had specimens of so eorrw ^ tf < ai st ate of things in the pagan world—we have seen , in the later times ofi the Rotean empire , the very worst of spectacles which human nature , left toitsiowfa vicious tendency ; could display ; yet I do not thinks that ? theiiiisfcoir ^ iof mankind has reached theutmost pitch 7 of perversity , ; We know ; 'the < inobej 4 he »©/ is >/ 6 f

    knowledge the greater is sin , and it cannot ; fail but that the state of imjdnkind must become corrupt in proportion . The more we ha ^ e been > iiq ^ er > th ^ d » . nuence of the Divine dispensation , the more * there has ? been done tpi healt 6 uinature , to strengthen and to quicken it in good things ' , the more / shall * w ^ findi that criminality increases , if those means be either neglected opiabqs ' fed . HhT > - // "Viewing , then , the subject in this light , that the want of a sufficitmt appliv cation of the BrinciDles 6 f Christianitv to the constitution of social ' life is > ifefetf — — — - ^ ^ ¦ ^~^ h— — ¦—¦—~^ - ^^ ^™» ¦ " ^ b ¦ ¦ i ¦^^^¦¦^ b bv ¦ h r i - -w- — ¦ — — - ¦ —« — — w - ™—

    ^^^ ^^ ^^ - ^^ ^ aw ^^ r ^ r *^ ^^^ w ^^ ^^ r ^^ ^^^^ ' ^^^ ~^^ ^ a ^ ^ m ^^ ^ r ^^ ^ ^^^ v ^» ^^ ^^^ p ^^^ ^» ' cause of the great discrepancy which we observe bet \ veen the doctrinei of our religion and the condition of society , it will become so much more imperative a duty to apply those principles to education y and as * it is not in our powpr to stop the tide of evil which has once taken its course among the existing ? gene ^ ration , we may at least exert ourselves to begin on a new foundation with rei gard to the training of our children . Here , at least , we should abstain from retaliating upon the offender , and allow the sense of duty , and the internal

    chastisement of conscience ; to supply the place of slavish apprehension of painful consequences . No one canl ) e more deeply convinced than I am myself , of the existence , as well as of the necessity , of p unishment to the fallen creature . I know that punishment has been dispensed , and is daily dispensed , by Providence ; but I know , also , that true punishment does not consist in unpleasant feelings arbitrarily inflicted upon iis ; on the contrary ; what constitutes the efficacy and awfultieBS of the Divine punishment is , On the one hand , the vital nature of the highest of all the punishments of God , namely , that which he inflicts upon our souls by the internal stings of conscience ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 821, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/21/