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      * penny tracts' to comfort him—Pish ! they are not half sufficient to ignite the six ounces and a half of coal which he has borrowed from his neighbour . Send him ten thousand at once : they will weigh a few pounds ; there is bread and beef for himself and family for the day , and he will recover part of them in wrappers to his farthing candles and ha ' p ' orths of cheese . Do this , and you will be doing good , though it is in a queer , roundabout way ; and you will have your

      reward . The affair will swell an item in your next annual report , and your brethren of the committee will compliment your zeal , and you shall be tea'd and gossiped ; and all good people will admire you , and all the empire shall be blessed with the joyful news of this spread of comfort , and all the empire shall be taxed with importunities in furtherance of these blessings . Tell the hungry and the naked to be resigned and patient , that those who strip them and starve them may loll undisturbed in lazy luxury .

      O , verdant , flowery , and lovely England ! I look upon the soft , and bright , and gladdening decorations which nature lias spread over thee with lavish hand . I cast my memory ' s eye ever all else on which I have gazed , over all on which my foot has trodden ; and to thy demiparadise delighted turn again with an increased ardour of affection from the comparison—and while I exclaim , ' Oh beautiful , most beautiful ! ' I feel as I could cling to each tree , and shrub , and flower , with

      a lover ' s fondness , as my bosom swells with admiration , joy , and rapture . But when I look among thy people , all the glorious exultation dries up from my heart , and bitterness succeeds the draught which heaven mingled . I see one third of thy twelve millions have no other use for sense or reason than to study new indulgences , and find fresh sources of life ' s enjoyment ; all the others are toiling to administer those indulgences , and supplying those sources ; struggling to endure existence , or battling with misery while life endures .

      But , when will the time which I have prophesied arrive ? Will it ever arrive ? Yes . Man is good till , he is taught to be otherwise . Let this good be cherished . I think it will be—it has not been cherished . For one who dared to whisper his conjectures ten years ago , there are a hundred now who deeply think and dare speak aloud ; in ten years more , that hundred will multiply itself . Mass after mass will be detached from the mountains of bad . and on the

      increasing ratio will bounteously run . Many , who adventure in this cause of truth and benevolence universal , will be shivered in the collision with established notions ; already some have recoiled from the shock—others will falter ; and over each recoiler and each falterer a shout of triumph will be raised , lias been raised , by the worshippers of things as they are , the wiser , worldly jeerers at Utopia . They will exult that the recoilers and falterers are convinced of their error , and have recanted . Each recantation has been in the

      spirit of Galileo ' but it does move ne vertlieleas / whispered Galileo . The falterers and recoilers liave found , that too groat a strength was possessed by the wolves of society . Wolves—not figurative wolvesonce ranged throughout our island , and were thought to be as difficult of extermination as the moral wolves of to-day . Yet , exterminated they were ; though , doubtless , there were many conservative

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      696 Autobiography of Pel , Verjuice .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1833, page 696, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2624/page/36/