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SUNDAY
The Act Bill for what is called the better observance of this day may be stiled a provision of Indirect
Legislation for the encouragement of vices
A la bonne heure, when any one can make the a world in six days let him be made to rest the 7.th Very different would it be the case be, if with the same facility that with which people may be driven
from
the obnoxious pursuits, they could fixed to those on which it is wished the design to fix them.
A mischief is never so dangerous nor so difficult to be shaken off, as when the ill
policy of the measure is screened <add>varnished over by</add> piety of the design. had
There is a wide difference between running a tilt against their prejudices, and officiously lending them assistance.
The connection between Industry & Virtue on the one hand Idleness and Vice on the other, is so ind close & necessary, as
nothing can dissolve—
The mixed sport of Monkery & Judaism
Is there no Father of the Church who has strength of mind discernment to descry the latent poison
at the bottom of this specious remedy?
The grand source of illusion in this as in so many other Articles is the inconsiderate
transference transforming in imagination of their own ideas on the breasts of others — they thinkorder in & lay out the
pursuits of the illiterate vulgar, the principal objects of these regulations, as they would
their own — They do not consider that how impossible it is that those pursuits should
become an occupation, capable of filling up the time thus emptied of every other
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to any but minds cultivated by education, fraught with various kinds of preliminary
Ideas, acquirements carried to speculation accustomed to feed with relish on abstractions
(after they linger out their moments in a state of torpid listlessness, and languor
or they turn Methodist and lose their senses: or plunge into the pursuits of
& forbidden pleasure
It is not in the power of a that a Statute can <add>which the inalterable constitutions of things</add> to destroy the connection in of causes & effects
These are the Sentiments of one confirmed by long diligent reflection in the habit of regarding being jealous every fact of in the Tablets of Jurisprudence as precious, every word added without necessity' to the System as giving any a chance for the whole: being incomprehensible, and every infringement upon the liberty of the people made without apparent necessity, as unjustifiable & pernicious.
It is surprising that Men who should find no difficulty in admitting the existence
of this connection for 6 days in the week, should imagine it regularly dissolved
every 7th, as if there were that magic in the name of a particular day that
could alter controul the nature of things — as if the indissoluble check of causes and effects would interrupt <add>break off
itself to accommodate itself to their prejudices
the lower class of people, whose benefit it is that is most in view, are the very
persons with respect to to whom it is most certain of being ineffective, since it is they are not qualified who are the the persons least
to fill up the vacated time in a suitable by suitable occupations [relative: and mischievous, since
to fill keep up up the equilibrium of , virtuous thoughts & occupations will inevitably
enter in at the gap.
continue to look upon the burthening of the collection with so much accumulated waste paper as a to be a matter of indifference that every be crude expedient which bears on it's front the title of a provision for the promoting of Religion is to be set in fact for asking,
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