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    dous sciehtific power Vfhich spans miles in * jjpiuuUs , aud tt £# ff mote localities together ^ we wan t one w hich studl annihiliie socjii distance * and unite the antagonized . ' v What i * the state of human feociety ? Wolves and Vultures $ b

    not tear even their prey as human beings in political and Civil strife tear each other . Manners are more equally polished , and mischief is therefore less obvious ; but are truth and kindliness more common , or malice ,, envy , and slander less rare ? But to leave the little nests of social venom in which folly and falsehood fabric their poisoned shafts , and turn to a larger scene of sorrow and turbulence . What makes the misery of this

    magnificent country ? Is it an ineffective government which patfelyzes , at least impedes , the advancement of the spirit of freedom ? Is it a State Church which &its like an incubus on the country , arresting its vital circulation ? Is it an hereditary le&islatkm which , like a taint in the blood , defies every remedy which reform can devise ? It is none of these ; these are but the consequences , inevitable , miserable * fatal conseqxienees , of the universal

    departure from the divine precept which I have taken for my text . We do not love one another '; nay , we hate one another . Each one is buckled up in the black armour of selfishness , with a quiver full of lies at his back , which , at the call of interest , caprice ; and a thousand petty motives * he scatters around him . The few who go forth with the naked breast of sympathy in a setae-like this , soon recoil * fatally , if not mortally , wounded , and then , if it

    be possible , they retire from the unequal contest presented to them in the hateful conflicts of the world , and the breast th « fc might have been the home of a social hearty becomes the hermitage of a lonely one . ; ~ ' •"> The practical adoption of the divine principle ' love onto ano ^ ther' can alone banish the spirit of Cain which so universally

    brands society . But as the twig must be bent while it be irotfflg * while the gnarled oak resists every attempt made to bend it > so mu 3 t the principle be sedulousl y brought into exercise upon tlW young , and , as for the adult , all that we may hope is tcrmodify their natures through the medium of their interests : reftofetkn * and experience , if they can be induced to cultivate the one ' arid

    look back upon the other , will tell them that the pdaee which passeth straw can neither be found , or , if found , preserved ; upon the present plan of social life , which deludes us with a ptxim ^ of pleasure , but surrenders thfc innocent to injury , artd the mi ^ chfcvcm * and malignant to the re-ftOtion of the injury th * y ibfik * —that in like manner do benefits and forbearatvea re-Adtv The

    tn * th of this assertion I &m attest ; 4 Vtm tlw pnfetfltitable fct ^ tempt to save others from the actite anguish attendant uvuttitlfo recollection 6 f the legist failure in duty knd te ^ dgW ^ g < M >» V ao * M 4 ' happily * rpm tile feeling * of mf D # IH hettU 1 ' fem % »» uyfa » ud thewk of erorrcHv am * desolation ami e » nt fonh the < We of ttto *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 715, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/23/