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"THE LION AND-UNICCRN GAZETTE . " November 21 , 1851 . Sir—I cm rather surpri-ed that you should have condescended to notice the impotent scurr'lity of a print which calls itself the Church and State Gazette . The Guardian , indeed , from its position , its talent , and the highly respectable party in the Church it ably represents , had a right to your calm and dignified rebuke . Bus surely you were entirely ignorant of the utter insignificance of the " State-Church Hurdy-gurdy . " Probably you had never heard its name pronounced before the number in question was sent to your office by some officious friend . Allow me to tell you in a few words what this paper is , and what it professes to represent . I think I shall be able to show that the bile of " Low " Parson do in has
not been raised by your Socialist doctrines , or by y > > ur supposed sympathy for the Heterodox , so much as by your earnest and eloquent advocacy ( all the more remarkable as coming from such a quarrer ) << f that section of the English Church in which all the independence , learning , and sincerity—all the remaining vitality , in a word , of the " Establishment " is to be found . I mean what is called the "High Chuiih " Party . The party who desire the Church to be set free from the trammels of Parliament and Premier , and to be something diviner than an "Establishment . " Now , the six or seven hundred parsons to whom the circulation of this Church and Stale Gazette is
limited , will tolerate anything rather than sincerity and independence . The bare idea of such Quixotisms is a bitter insult to them . Talk to William Sykes of honesty ! The 600 subscribers to this paper are men to whom the most sacred symbol in the Church is the " Lion and the Unicorn . " The " loaves and ii * hes " are the fitting emblems of their faith . Pleasant houses , scattered up and down the country , arc the tics that bind them to a Church who . se doctrines they deny , whilst they eat her bread . Advocate separation from
the State , from ministerial patronage , from act of Parliament consecration , from PrivyCouncil decisions on Articles of Failh , if you will , and expect the Christian kindness of the ( iOO subscribers to the Church and State ( , ' azctte . Sir , there is 11 * 0 Popery like the Popery of this Low-Church parHondom : no intolerance like theirs , no spiritual despotism like theirs . It is the Popery of private judgment . "There is no persecution , " . says Daiinou , " so atrocious as that which men carry on in the name of a faith , but n » behalf of their own material interests . "
Thus estimable print talks of gibbeting your contributors . Shall 1 give you an idea of the contributors in whom this organ of " faith thut worketh by love" has been wont to rejoice ? * ~ > ir , whatever little notoriety the Church and State ( Jazctte has attained , it owes chiefly to the contributions <> i a gentleman whose name ( when lie is not '' di'pting an alias ) in , I believe , W . F . ( jawthorne . l ' rom W . ]«' . ( Hawthorne , if 1 am not mistaken , this nnmaculute print was wont , te ) receive reports of Immature conversions to Rome , which it . eagerly
a doj ) ied , with the ulight change of one syllable , from " Cou" to "Per . " A nerien of papers entitled ' raiiMitioniKt Doings" were , I am al .-o informed , '"' hi the name characteristic sonic :. ; . The writer hud "' ready passed over to the Church of Rome , lie Wl ote , no doubt , on the principle <>{ " Qui . veut la lin , V ( '"t lew moyens . " As a convert , he , . sought to add converts . (> the tame princip le , Sir , your Pro-I' ^ taia i'hun h and Slate ilazc . ttc , received and pub' » nhcd report * , knowing them to be false-. » So 11 ucli 1 () r 'he eo ntributoi . s to the Church and State ( lazctle .
• he onl y regret , of vve . l wishers to your admirable P'M'c r ( lor dMn « iiii ,, £ r eni . in | y li 0111 many of i'h opi-» ioiiH , 1 ^ t . ill i ,. flpt .,. j , , M , Wer , impartiality , and K (;» eroun elevation of le . lii . g ) must , be that the ciiruation ,, f dun puny nHrtuiluin . in so insigiiilicant . To c utiaoked from bitch a quuittr ia woi-ill < j [ uire »» of
injudicious praise . The serpent in the grasp of the infant IJercules faintly illustratea the strength of this calumniator and your own . —I am , Sir , your obedient servant , Prjevalebit .
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THE ATHANASIAN CREED . B ; irton-by-LincoIn , Nor . 24 , 1851 . Dea . r Sir , —Permit me to ask what your " esteemed correspondent" of last Saturday ' s number means by calling the Athanasian Creed " the only foundation for the Trinity" ? If he means that it is the only foundation for the doctrine of the Trinity . I would remind him that the document which goes by that name ( though composed at least two hundred years after the death of St . Athanasius ) is merely a declaration of what the Church held at that period to be the Catholic or orthodox belief m the subject . The belief itself can by no means be said to rtst upon it as its " foundation . " On the contrary , we aro , as Bishop Burnet observes , " certain that it was universal !} - received over the whole Christian Church long before there was either a Christiun prince to , support it by hi * authority , or a Courcil to establish it by consent . We know , both by what Tenullian and Nonatian wri % what was the faith both <¦ £ the Roman and the African . Churches . From Irenseus we ga'her the faith both of the Gtllican and Asiatic Churches . And the whole proceedings in the case of Samosatenus , which was the solemnest business that passed while the Church was under oppression and persecution , give us the most convincing proof possible , not only of the fiith of the Eastern Churches at that time , but of their zeal likewise in watching over every breach that was made in so sacred a part of their trust and depositum . "
I have preferred giving this succinct statement of Burnet in his own words , to going into a leng'hened enumeration of the ancient authorities which might te appealed to in support of the assertion , that a belief in the Trinity " , instead of having its foundation in the Athanasian Creed , was , so far as accredited records enable us to judge , contemporaneous with belief in Christianity itself . Believe me , yours most faithfully , liDMUXD li . liAHlCEN .
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London , November 21 , ] 8 . > 1 . Sin , —You certainly do allow your " esteemed correspondent" to fling into your Miscellaneous strange opinions . Of course , if any one believes that the doctrine of the Tiinity rests alone upon the creed oi St . Athanasius , it is in accordance with your " master principle" to give that opinion ^ 'iice utterance" ; but would it not also be in accordance with \ our character as " the Leader" of the people to follow such an announcement with an interjective mark , that might signify to your readers , either that you dissented from your esteemed correspondent , or that the discovery of so startling a fact was worthy of all note ? Will your friend tell us on what rests the faith of the Trinitarian body of Christians ' , who receive not , and never have received , the creed of St . Athanasius ? I am , Sir , yours , One oi' Tjikm .
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BOOKS WITHOUT AN INDKX . November ' - > G , 1 W ) 1 . Sir , —I am much guided in the books I buy by your criticisms on , and extractw from them . Pray when you have the opportunity , ask those gentlemen who review them to mention when they have not an index . A book without an index i . s like a m ; m without legH ; though a table of contents is very important , it does not make up for the want of an index .
Lot me show the importance of this . I am one of thousands Avith the means of buying such books as I think will be useful to me , especially since so much valuable knowledge has been brought within the company of ordinary means ; yet 1 have been for an active life ho circumstanced , that I cannot read through the books I buy ; but I can use them , and so can iiuiHt men who have made their way upwards in the world . 1 rise at six , and occupying tun ? hour in
those duties which are next to ( xodliness , I have one hour in the morning for reading . I am engaged all day in business until about live ; it is near six when I get home ; 1 have then to got dinner , and j-jive those attentions to my family and friends which occupy the most of the evening ; it . is therefore impossible for me to read through the hooks it . i . s necessary 1 should consult " , and 1 buy them because ; criticisms upon them . show me they arcs the hoi t of hooks that 1 should Itave at baud .
1 takes an interest , in the social and political movements of the day ; I attend lectures and other meetings ; and you will sre from ( . bin bow impossible it , is that , a book should be useful to me that him not . got an index . Just , consider what , time for reading volumes through 11 man « o eiicuinstnneed has—lai ge classes of men are no eireumst ; . tin ed ; but they have bad school « ducation , and the education of ciieiiiust . uneeH during their youth and progi en . s through , wiy , the iii-st forty yeaiH ol ilieir lite ; and they are enabled to uae booka when they aro ui hund , with reference to
those subjects on which they desire to take part in conversation , in instructing their family , or in moving in those matters in which their circle of activity calls them to take part . I went over my library the other day , and I found I had not read one in five of the books * that I possess , yet 1 know the general contents , have gleaned and could again glean in and use them should the occasion arise ; but I could not have used them if they had been index-less , without losing more time in the search than a man so engaged can afford to devote to a book without an index .
As you know who is the writer of this letter , you will not think that I mention it from any view than my avowed one ; but take Bohn ' s Serials , say , for an instance , Humboldt's Cosmos , and there you -will find an index , and a table of contents , which together will enable any man to bring the varied and extensive information which that work contains , before the mind in a few minutes . Yours faithfully , Edwahd Search .
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MALTHUS . Trinity College , Cambridge , November 25 , 1851 . Sir , —Permit me to crave a smalt space in your columns for a remark on a letter of Mr . F . B . Barton , which appeared in your paper as far back as the 25 th of January last . He says that theologians have striven hard to reconcile the benevolence or justice of the Creator with the facts or laws of Nature ; but upon this point ( the Malthusian principle of rjopulation ) not at all to his satisfaction . Allow me to refer him and your readers to A Treatise on the / Records of the Creadon , &c , by the Reverend John Bird Sumner , M . A . ( now Archbishop of Canterbury ) , where they will find it clearly proved , as appears to me , in Chapters 5 and 6 , Part 2 , that this principle is not only reconcilable with the benevolence and justice of the Creator , but is much more conducive to the happiness of mankind than if population had no tendency to press unon the means of subsistence . Yours , Sec , G . Pryme .
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A LETTER TO CHARTISTS . November 2 . ") , 1851 . Sir , —There is a mistake prevalent among Chartists . They have fallen into the error of supposing tliat strong words are strong sense . They have set up certain wordy idols , and worship them as devoutly as any heathen worships a block of wood . The first thing they look for in any document is these idols ; if they are not there , the s < nse , the truthful expression , the manly spirit go for naught , Chartism stands up and asks , " Where ' s Moloch " ?
There is a standard by which Chartists measure all men . In order to be popular , it is not necessary to be learned or earnest , so much as it is essential to have a stock of democratic slang always on hand . There are certain words which meetings have applauded for years ; and a . speech well garnished with " good old abu-e , " or " prime standaid denunciation , " shakes the heavens , whilst common sense and justness seem to freezes democracy . Chartists mistake sound for sense and noi . se lor strength . Earnestness 10 them means denouncing all who will not denounce everybody .
They scorn to be practical . They revel in the vague . They like to be oppressed . They think practical -men lukewarm ; but they laud 1 . 0 the skies the great talker and little doer . Practice to them certainly is vexation . They meet for the sake of meeting , and go home denouncing their oppressors , but not doing anything to prevent themselves being oppressed . They regard talking as an end , r . otauu means . Alter years of vain agitation they still are quite unprepared to carry out effectuall y any plun differing from their old stereotyped methods .
Why must Chartism be a whirlwind or a dead calm ? Is there no medium ? Can it not he a steady gale HOinetimcH ? Wh y must 1 forswear common wm . se ? Why must I look upon Murray as a mortal foe ? _ Why must I abjure all conscieneiousnehH ? I won ' t do it . I will not call Jones an aristocrat , because be thinks the payment of members unwise . 1 will Htick to Linelley Murray . I won ' t applaud every speaker who calls the Whigs " bane , brutal , and bloody . " 1 cannot lind anything in the CI 1 .. 1 ter that should compel me to do ho ; and I think it is within verge of probability fora Chartist to be gentlemanly . Tennyson has said : — " Well roars the ntorm to him who hc / irn
A deeper voice across the . storm . " Hut we are not bound , therefore , to get up a Morm to make ourselves heard . Sonus people are so stupid that , they cannot hear the " deeper voice , " and aro apt to think that wo are all wind : No one di . sliki h enrnestncHH ; but tins di / feienee between eariusHtne-NH and denunciation ChnrtiHts haves yet . to learn . There ; in u way to ntnt . e cmivietioiiH strongly but inoffensively . I his in what Chartists cannot elo . They have to learn to woik steadily and liimly . To net like men who elemund a right , not a . s nit 11 who would bully us into a wrong .
Why must Chartism hes vulgar ? Wh y should they priele themselves 011 being ho ? There 1 h no vulgarity in tho Churtor itttelf . Why ahoultl not Churtibtu hu
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lN THIS DEPARTMENT , \ 8 ALL OPINIONS , HOWEVER EXTREME , 1 AUK ALLOWED AN KXPRESS 1 ON , THE EDITOR NECESSARILY HOLDS HIMSELF RESPONSIBLE FOR NeiNE . ]
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There is no learned man but will confess he hath much profited bv reading cor . troversion , his senses awakened , and hus judgment sharpened , it , then , it be profitable for him to ' read , why should it not , at ieast , be tolerable for his adversary to write . — M 1 lton .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1851, page 1143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1911/page/19/
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