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    f Popular patriotism * —not the love , but the boast of country * a beating out of the leaf-brass of self-conceit , —is out of vogue . Jt seems to have been declining ever since the days of Dibdin , that

    poet-laureate of loyalty ; then it was at its zenith . At that perk ** the belief in the superiority of a < true-born Englishman ' over every other creature on the face of the earth , especially a Frenchman , might have swelled the thirty-nine articles to forty , for it was part of the universal creed of the country .

    ^ Such narrow and exclusive opinions have for settle time beert yieldiag to broader and better views ; thanks to peace , a foee intercourse with foreigners , and the power of a few ma * 4 e # * minds , more or less in operation among us . It is the tendency of these minda to think , as it were , in masses ; to merge the petty details of connexion , class , and clime , in the

    grand circle of universal humanity . This is a sublime disposition of miad . The philosoph y it inculcates cannot be too waruriy cherished , too firmly fixed ; it will furnish the lever which trill raise England out of the mercenary mud into which she has bee $ in a great degree sunk ; already its electric power has rouged malty from the torpor of exclusive interests , wrenched open the double

    locked doors of ignorant selfishness , and will in its irresistible cottr&e shatter the show y fabrics of specious power and pretension . This philosophy has breathed doom upon the Aristocracy , no £ of England only , but of the whole earth . Aristocracy is a tumour growing out of the diseased state of the body politic ; a tumour , which will die away under the alterative administered to the public mind by this philosophy , —a better process for it * ¦

    extinction than any violent excision could offer . * ¦ , . The progress of this philosophy will create a new moral atmihsphere , in which future generations , with their first , fresh , ftae energies , will awake at once , and take a character unknown to the cramped , crooked , contracted nurslings of past opinion , / Yet while I recognise with delight this enlarged and beauli& philosophy , the conception , comprehension , and acting \ lt > oa which ia the nearest approach man has made to the Godhead * I

    feel ;—reven while ray reason and experience bid me perceive ftml acknowledge the inextricable , \ inalienable , universal , and ettiftfctl linking of the whole chain of being , —I feel so strongly wifcbin & | e the * principle of independence , the sense of cmenes 4 > it ao I m * y exf *« f 9 < ntjsdf , that 1 caonot forbear to take my stand for * * IDraeathitithr tfcd ttmn in opposition to the ur ^ te * sal , abd r « deat « ur

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 595, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/31/