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    The pdo ? wonwMt wbo , miikt a * camt wahlrcrbe , is « tm feeuk ? aodckan id h « r pessoa , amid vari&ua imri trying flnliis ji i » patent , gently ana affectionate in bet domestic relattetre ^ rititki sttnlLiunds U economical and judicious m hear household utmn nagement , a * presenting every day si practical exposition oSaaoisn of the least lessons in life , may be a greater bencfaeftress : « f lis *

    kind tb * n Use woman of fortune , though she scatter a tithe of a large income in alms . The poor man , whose regularity and 1 sobriety of conduct co-operates with such a woman , and shows his feHow-workmen , or townsmen , what temperance , industry ^ manly tenderness , and superiority to low ana sensual ten ^ rta * \ tion can effect in endearing a home which , like the green spot that the traveller finds in the desert , is bright even amid the

    gloom of poverty , and sweet amid all its surrounding bittc * ne « —such a man does good as well 4 s the most eloquent apeak **/ that ever spoke , the most eloquent writer that ever wrote . If there were a few patriarchs of the people ^ women as weH asr ; men ( if I may be excused for admitting the former tat patri * nrchy ) , their influence tf ould soon be sensibly and beneficiafly felt- ii

    But , while too many are unconscious or indifferent toHtno good to be effected by nigh example , they are , just in the sum . ' proportion , careless of the mischief consequent on ill exatnpM j thus they strengthen the unhappy convictrons of the evil dotvl - * -tbey weaken the perseverance of the better » truggler ***« nd they determine at once to error sach as may be waverbac between the two ; for , unfortunately , it is a balance in which the leM ^ make-weight is sufficient .

    Let no one imagine that I am preacjimg entire ooeteDtteenft to the peoplew I an > doing no such thing . Nothing . short of imbecility can be justified in silting down satisfied * tinder injos ticey and it is one of the firmest of my convictions , that resis t ** a&ee alone can conquer wrong . A generous concession ^ nevsr

    ] ias > and ^ I could almost say , neve * will be made , by any goror ** meat to a people . Government is the great state tool > ngtra * factured for the advantage of the people , and it is for tb * t * to look to it , and take care that it get neither too sharp nor toto blnnt . . , ;• ¦ :

    . I cannot see why personal and political conduct may not h&t founded upon that principle of improvement which , at h * wm Tnakes the best of the worst circumstances , and abroad , stritar to nake the worst better- , '

    W 6 have every day , and every whem around us , dettdsrf / and decidedly inoi * ea »* ng evidence of the rising inteBigflDMnof i the people . Man m felt to be man ; fedb himself in every *** & tioft to tW man , in a ttajntaer th « t our feiktal anocstavs , f < aik ^ . they rise to witness it , could not credit , nitafkpb&tagmetlmm

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 683, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/31/