The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-11-26 00:00:00

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c'Pllble of ••trinx the test of every int eatigstion.—
Knowing, ea I <1.,. Chit belief or co...ieti.in doss not
depe...t on ft • will or the it.dividesl, I will no• at.
tempt to ii,o,',ere this and entleavoo- •o ;Ilene
before Ott, minds rf those who now eqll.lo 111060,y,
reasons which will satisfy them, that iu all they en•
do they are settee cootrary to their Own 111/ff011( and
happiness—that they perpetually catch et the shadow
•hile lboy may enjoy the sebsiosww.
All the old system• of ilea encl.% th n, have the
use base, and may he justly conci4orrid as woo.—
They hove all been formed en principles *hit+ are
at estimate •illt nature and impotence has been
taken for granted by sir forefather., ari•hout any
investigation. " that a created beir.g Cie be ether..
wise thus he his home crested," and they have built
all their systems en this notion. All the evils which
have been experienced by mankind may be easily
traced to this mow*. It is am reuse of ell those
we now seller. Ml'. this One error can be with.
drown from your minds, a!I Whir will s:eedi-
ly disappear; they ere all inseparably connected
with it, low from it, and cannot Stitt without
it. Wheneser it shall be removed, all one? dif.
Aceltii and miseries sill terminate. This ap-
parently trivial error, has been the real and
only demon in hymen society; it Is the soiree
of ell the bed passions, end the sole cause of
oniony. When the notion has been received by men.
" that a created Wog eats become something else
!lea the power which creetrd it intended," then the
imegieation superstd,s and destroy! judcm•n:,
end ail the associations of the mind become a
chaos of confusion, or en aggregate of inconsistenries
sod ceatradietions. Such has been the state of the
human intellect from the earliest period of its history
le the preheat isomeat ; and hitherto the (acidly of
imagination has governed all the proceeljtgs of men.
When the imegiustion bad once supposed that a
created being could do something of itself, or act by
a power within itself that was vomited, the oast
step wet easy to imagine, that barman belay liediei.
deafly, each for himself, could form some port of
threaselvn. That man coold fors any of the ester.
eel part of his estate, was boomer an abler.lity tee
evident, la all the human nesse to be admitted, et
over for the imagination to suppose. Bat, as it wee
se palpably Jewell,'" that be could form the smallest
part of Ids ewe body, it was same how or ethic
isagined that be could easily form same port of Ids
eon mind, his will for instance, although to this
betel he knows set what the will, or say part et his
mind it, or one et its directing movements. Ho is
as jet ergealated with •he erects only of this eztra-
oreinaty creitioo. These two errors of the Woe.
'nation male way for the third, that man, though
capable of forming • will for himself, was incapable
let fortniog • geed Bill, or, of himself, of acting
right; yet, Incapable as be was, and thosigh he did
wet ere ate hie own incapacity, tall be ought to be
messily punished for the incapability of formic. e
good wilt, or in other words, a will to act right, errs
cording to the notions of an sort varying hoagies.
tie.. It was a iseeessary conseqaeoce of Ibis step of
stun to suppose it wrong to set agreeably to nature
—thence tense the Indies. Retitle's' arrangements of
'society -to enenteract nature, sod thus to mete
aloes, and all the had passions: then followed ether
eeteugroneeis to counteract the effect f these oleos
mid bed passioos, which igaistaece bad created.—
lash is the foundation of all the old systems still is
the world; the root from whence they all spring;
they ate is fact bet brooches of the same tree,
,aed
their fruit has ever bees, end ever bill be the seem,
seemly, ignorance, poverty, vice, crime, and mi•
eery, or • direct poises to the prosperity sod happlo
sees of sesokind. It is the interest of every Issas
buleg that these error' should be low removed, sad
that sea should bees to derive hermit fro. the u.
patience acquired through past ages. The truly be.
oiteoleist and intelligent, who base a sincere dash,
to 'meliorate the condition of mantled, without
emoting ennocemary evil, will not deem it requisite
fee me to deemed to the exposers of the seism
"trots of each of the old systems. These erten
steed already esposed to each other, and the (seat
majority of the world, have for centarks pest seen
this as I see thew, eacept that they have net been
permitted to perceive the errors which saint alibis
the Immediate circle of their owe localities. Whoa
they shall be enabled to do this, the ignorance, po•
terry, evil passions, and misery in which sea in all
countries are sow enveloped, will be permanently
removed. Y.ie may sow say, perhaps, "if then
the ar. rid is wrong, what meatuses ought to be
adopted to imptote the condition of human astute?"
I answer, that • coodect the reverse of that per.
sued by any party might to be immediately pot late
practice.
In this country the most ample means valet, to
give Ismediste relief to all clews without injury to
an iodleideal of any deeeription, or of any rank ; and
it behoves every one is this crisis of our revelry
avid of the world, to bring thee* ernes without lose
if lime into action, that the hungry may be fed, the
salted clothed, end the discontented rendered peace*
able, and valesble members of society. On the
strength of an ezpetleoce such as no other Wiwi-
deal hes yet obtained, I assert, mid am ready to
prole the assertion, that the Government possesses
the power and the means to give home/hate relief In
all the working classes ; that this relief can be givsn
oonly by a change of system ; end for the advantsge
of all potties, IWO chimps ought to commence with
the Gotereeseet, its onison with the most respectable
portion of the community, that the interest of the
upper end lower classes may be again waited, and
satsal good will and ceolldence established between
them. It will tint be necessary to call for any sect'.
fie, of property or opinion from • single individual.
There will be no appareet alteration in any of the
talsting arranvoc•uts of society, 'ocelot that
411 those who are now naturally discontented for
want of emtitioyments and oho are burly es.,tv,g