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OUR REPRESENTATIVES.
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Our Representatives.
OUR REPRESENTATIVES .
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The plan , so frequently and successfully adopted by Voltaire , Swift , and a few other great writers , of viewing the morals , religion , literature , and politics at home , through the medium of some foreign intellect , whether of India or Fairy-land , and thus obtaining a high ground of abstraction wherefrom to ; take a clear view of men and things , might again be brought irjto operation with a very startling effect . The expose would cefctainly produce a considerable sensation under any condition p £ social circumstances , but the benefit obtained might bp mare
essentially important at the present time than in any previous * period . The world has never before been so open to ccmnfjjrrshensive principles . Discoveries iu mental and ph # si < &l sciences have heen hitherto made .. to . » o enlarged and allembracing practical purpose * The kings and priests turned the discoveries to their own advantage , and hung the
philosophers . But now , if a principle of general good be discovered and generally understood , the people insist ujpoivi . te adoptiqfc ; and as the main difficulty lies in producing this gejnqral understanding , so . it woald do great service if any original pro ^ ae were developed for the purpose of showing the int ^ nalrfeficiencies of those individuals whose exterior preten # i tfs
induce the people to elect them as Representatives qf their grievances and requisition ^ . And one principal want of the people they certainly do most admirably represent;— -the want of knowledge , for were not this the case , the people wouW know better than either to elect , or suffer to be elected , swJi men as the majority of the Representatives have hitftcfrtio proved themselves to be . There they sit , and there ; they talk ! Session after session , talk they and sit . Taxes and tithe& ^ re
collected ; bishops and other bible-apd-unicorn smecvnst ^ aye paid ; new churches are built up like walls agains-t Natio ^ l Education ; sailors are still the subject * of Impre ^ sm ^ t i iwith a sailor-King upon the throne ; soldiers are beaten like . 4 og ^
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" Our wrongs and rights , Our shades and lights , Our meals , and those who dress them ; Our Representatives o' nights , God bless ' em ! "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1837, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1827/page/1/
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