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      the monthly Repository r , a . fact more notorious , perhaps , to the readers of the Examiner newspaper than to the Unitarian public in genera ] . Is it certain that the report would Have been passed unaltered , if this fact had been mentioned . The

      reiTifedies ~ for-,. this-. e-v 41- * ar-e-obv-ious 7 ~ -let every meeting of the committee be open , ( to listeners , not to speakers , ) and let the resolutions be published in one of the periodicals exclusively devoted to Unitarians . Notwithstanding all that has been said , I

      cannot help thinking that we have quite as many of these as we ought to have . We have very little to gain by sectarianism . Jbet us leave off pulling down the Trinity , and the atonement ; such occupations are not fitted for the present age . The doctrine of universal love , and

      universal happiness , is of far more importance than the mere negation of the very grossest absurdities . We have be ~ eir " l ^ i ^^ en < 5 iug ^^] 5 ^ age ( J" * 5 i clearing away the rubbish , let us begin to erect the building . , Asmodeus .

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      The following petition is inserted in our pages , because it relates to a subject of great consequence to the Dissenters , and because we think that now is the time far tjien ^ to makq their grievances known , r

      ' To the Honourable the House of Commons in Parliament assembled . The Petition of the undersigned , members of the Unitarian Christian congregation , Greengate , Salford , Lancashire .: Humbly sheweth ,

      ' That your petftioners entertain the opinion that the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge were onU ginall y designed to cpnferthe Uengiits of a learned educalidii oh all the youths of . England , desirous and able

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      to avail themselves of their advantages ; and that , in point of justice , the benefits they offer ought to be open to all , irrespectively of creed or denomination ; while , in fact , the young * of a large influential and loyal portion of the community are exclude d"from ^ tiretr-wa ~ ri ' s ~ by ^ the ~ exis t ^ ance of doctrinal tests , which , whether true or false , those who are excluded cannot in conscience subscribe .

      • Your petitioners beg also to remind your Honourable ., House that a University is avowedly a place for seeking after and acquiring a knowledge of the truth ; and that to exact , as a condition of entrance , or as a qualification for receiving " honours , subscription to a series of merely human decisions on some of the most abstruse and debateabi 6

      points--of human inquiry , is not only to prejudice and fetter the mind , to offer a bribe to insincerity or indolence , but is moreover to act _ in

      direct opposition to the very object which a university is intended to promote . . ' Out of a sincere regard , therefore , to the best interests of the cau ^ didates for admission , even of the Established Church , and with a view to render national institutions of

      national service , your petitioners humbly pray your Honourable House * to adopt such measures as to your Honourable House may seem fitting " , in order to remove the barrier and the snare which obstruct the threshold . of the afore named Universities , in the shape of nine and thirty articles of faith . ¦

      ' Your petitioners moreover crave leave to represent to your Honourable House , that an ' iii ' stiTUtio ' n ' exis'ts styled the London University , which has among its patrons and processors some-of the wisest , most learned , and

      virtuous men in the United Kingdom , and , as a natural . consequence , gives promise of proving permanently an extensive , if not u national benefit ; yet , because it does not enjoy the mark of royal favour , which con-

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1833, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2619/page/19/