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    JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN NORWAY.

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    DURING THE YEARS 18 S 4 , 1835 , AND 1836 ,

    By Samuel Laing , Esq . 1 vol . London . Longman and Go . 1836 . To trace the progress of the great family of mankind ; to watch the peculiarities of its increase , and the variation of its populating principle , as modified by situations , climates , customs ,

    and moral and political institutions ; is a study of the deepest interest to every philosophic and benevolent mind . The accurate history of one civilized country , be it ever so small , wherein there exists any striking features of difference from the aggregate , constitutes a new field , both of experience and speculation . The world has never had fair play . The dice of the few have always been loaded , and the many have lost the game from generation to generation . If the priests and kings and rulers of the earth had met mankind on honest terms : if

    th ey had been honourable , decent , and sober of mind , conteilt with much gold , much homage , and much service ; the human family would have been happy and contented under their sway , and the admission of all their assumed pretensions would have been a comparatively small evil . But the grossness of brute power , ana the haggard lust for possessing a supernatural dominion over man ' s soul , fraught with sanguinary violence and the remorseless greediness of wealth , have always driven them on to extremes , which , ever doomed , are now on the eve

    of terminating in utter insignificance . We do not by any means intend to infer that , in the valuable work before us , we discover the develop ment of a moral and political system , by which the regeneration , or , to use the Ordinary word , the ' reform" of the world , is to be effected .

    In many respects the people of Norway are as immoral and unenlightened as any other " civilized " nations : in a few respects they are in advance of other nations . They have a greater and more rational freedom in their institutions . The picture they

    present is , in various parts , awkward and broken in outline , dull and false in colouring , coarse and confused in detail ; but , by comparison with others as a whole , it is still a p icture of peace and contentment , for which we are greatly indebted to Mr Laing , and we trust the lessons contained in it will not be lost upon the beople of England .

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    No . 119 . 2 X

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/1/