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    selfishness . The conventionality of the matter haa nothing to do with it . A malignant speech spoken in good language and with a modulated accent , is not refinement , while the speech springing from a kindly heart will assuredly take a refined tone , though the grammar be outraged , ana the words improperly chosen . Many mechanics , many labourers , are gentle-men , for gentleness is a result of nature subject to the

    modification of circumstances . Evil circumstances may repress their gentleness for a time , but when the pressure is removed the elasticity of nature will again resume its power . Sixthly . —Liverymen . —These are merely animated tools , expected to obey orders , without understanding of good or evil . They are of two classes—those who render services to their masters , and those who inflict evil on others . The first

    are called servants in livery . They wear strange dresses , such as red breeches and sky-blue coats , or yellow coats and skyblue breeches , with a profusion of tawdry lace . As is common with all slaves they are remarkable for their coarse insolence to all but their immediate masters and their master ' s associates . Never providing for their own wants they have no forethought , and in most of their moral attributes they resemble negro slaves . The other class are called soldiers . Their business is

    coercion and butchery , and their liveries are rather more uniform than those of their fellows who pursue the arts of peace . Were it not for this provision they would be apt occasionally to butclier each other in mistake . These men have no individual natures , they are merely parts of a machine which is of no ' use when taken to pieces . They also have no forethought , from being accustomed to depend on others for a subsistence , and tbey are more perfect slaves than their

    peaceful brethren . When from under the control of their drivers their only relaxation is sensuality . The whole system upon which they are governed is that of perfect despotism , and a despotism of the basest kind , viz ., fear . Like the lower animals they are governed by the scourge . Both these classes of men are getting out of repute as the age enlightens , and ere many years elapse it is suspected that they will cease to exist , and only be recorded in history .

    Seventhly . —Art inen . This is a most useful class , for they are the inventors of all the contrivances whereby human labour is lightened , and human life made agreeable . They take ad * vantage of natural " powers' * and make them perform human drudgery , « .

    work upon matter and those who work upon mind . Sculptors , painters , mechanical inventors , architects , physicians , and the common order of ^ ctore , are material &rt-uuen . Poets , and

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/27/