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    1 bbfedtotde to them * At all events , W € * recommend the prtfcent toluxde tdihe p erusal of those who feel interested in flie ameai * 6 f moral philosophy—and who is not ? or at least Who is thterer ^ hlt Should not be ? Nor must any of our remarks be interpreted Into a want of love and reverence for one who had indefkt ^ gmilV and joyfully dfevoted a large fortune and the labours of a long life totvards the improvement and happiness of his fellow creaturefc

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    The time has been , and that at no very distant period , when the sole public recreation of the people of England , to aay nothing of other countries , was an Execution ! Even now * and grieVous 'tis to say it , even now that dreadful spectacle is tyfrJ 4 too rhuch in the light Of an entertainment by those to w ^ op&ijt

    is meant to be an awful warning—a circumstance enough i a itself to convince legislators that nothing which indurates the heart can , by anj ^ possibility , effectually admonish the mi ad . When the currents of good feeling run scant the harvest of f&ifc intellect must fail . I am told that on the morning of an

    execution , numbers , even of women , may be seen hastening eagerly to the fatal place of exhibition . " Hear this , ye Gods 1 Atiq wonder how ye made them ! " ' ' * Tis impossible to those who feel warmly to repress emotions of indignation and disgust when they behold human being * insulting and degrading human nature ; yet these feelings are soon overtaken oy reflections which , enforcing the plea that man is so much the creature of circumstances , present excused

    fQr the depravity and absurdity that so often degrade hinni \ Vith a thankful and rejoicing heart I feel , that if capital punishment is not abolished , it is , at least , becoming more aiiq raorfe infrequent , and that with the amelioration of ' laws ana customs , the people , on whom they operate so powerfully , will

    depart farther and farther from brutality and barbarism . One very great engine for national improvement is to be sought in a matter which has never yet been held in sufficfifent importance—a matter in which the English Government * hht never interfered , unless it has been to strew the way wUh stumbling blocks—a matter which political economist * * tnO |* fll philosophers , and even practical philanthropists , have held in

    too little regard—the matter I mean is amusement—^ -the salutary relaxation of the spirits—that safety valve for the pasgions of the young , that restorative to the sinking fertteitiefc of tn £ k | f ^ ill snort , that absolute necessity to the healthy nappiaess orall .

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    AMUSEMENT .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 747, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/31/