Letter to the Bishop of LondonHurst, Chance & Company, St. Paul's Church Yard; and Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830 - Socialism and Christianity - 58 pages |
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Page 53 - The Great Truth has finally gone forth to all the ends of the earth, THAT MAN SHALL NO MORE RENDER ACCOUNT TO MAN FOR HIS BELIEF, OVER WHICH HE HAS HIMSELF NO CONTROL. Henceforward, nothing shall prevail upon us to praise or to blame any one for that which he can no more change than he can the hue of his skin or the height of his stature.
Page 8 - This Church was erected in the year 1835, containing 323 sittings, and in consequence of a grant from the incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement, building and repairing of Churches and Chapels , 193 of that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropriated for ever.
Page 47 - They may embitter opposition and engender violence, but they cannot abate the keenness of research. There is a silent march of thought, which no power can arrest, and which it is not difficult to foresee, will be marked by important events. Mankind were never before in the situation in which they now stand. The press has been operating upon them for several centuries, with an influence scarcely perceptible at its commencement, but by daily becoming more palpable, and acquiring accelerated force,...
Page 45 - ... established opinions, and in established institutions ; and promises an eternal stability to true philosophy, when it shall once have acquired the ascendant ; and when proper means shall be employed to support it, by a more perfect system of education. Let us suppose, for a moment, that this happy era were arrived, and that all the prepossessions of childhood and youth were directed to support the pure and sublime truths of an enlightened morality.
Page 31 - It has been and ever will be found far more easy to lead mankind to virtue, or to rational conduct, by providing them with well-regulated innocent amusements and recreations, than by forcing them to submit to useless restraints, which tend only to create disgust, and often to connect such feelings even with that which is excellent in itself, merely because it has been judiciously associated.
Page 47 - Whoever has attentively meditated on the progress of the human race, cannot fail to discern, that there is now a spirit of inquiry amongst men, which nothing can stop, or even materially control. Reproach and obloquy,' threats and persecution, will be vain.
Page 23 - ... who did not wish to become occupants. Now, let us suppose that each family has only 200/. a year; the remaining 100/. being spent under such arrangements, the family would derive far greater advantages than could be possessed by a family enjoying, on the present isolated principle, 600/. a year ; for besides procuring in a superior degree their present objects, including education for their children, they could have libraries, theatre, philosophical apparatus for lectures, music and ball-rooms,...
Page 57 - wisdom of our ancestors"—had not taught them to recognize newly discovered truths, and to discard those errors, to which ignorance had given birth, we should not have been indebted to them for the improvements, which, however well they may have served their purpose for a time, are destined to be superseded by still more important discoveries. In the year 1615, a Florentine had the presumption and audacity to assert, contrary to the prevailing opinions of the learned, the great, the good, and the...
Page 16 - A gentleman, who had personally inspected various streets and public avenues to the northwest of the metropolis, counted no less than four hundred and seventy-three shops, of various trades, open for business on the Lord's Day, besides stalls for fruit and other articles of consumption...