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Having tried to excite the indignation of the populace by the view of present or intended evil , he next addresses himself to their hopes : he encourages the disaffected with an expectation of the approaching overthrow of the establishment . ' If this is not sufficient to open your eyes , the last trump alone can awaken you . If this is not sufficient to rouse you to fresh v i gilance , fresh exertion , closer intercourse , and intrepid unanimity , ye are dead—ye are lost , not onl y « in the oblivious pool , ' but
" In bottomless perdition ;' there todivet ! " In adamantine chains . " Think , I conjure you : — -what is the prospect held out to you ? For yourselves—unqualified submission , or the prompt and destroying vengeance of some new mode of legalized massacre , or military execution : —for your children—the tombstones of progenitors , who , though bom to a degree of freedom , which they were bound to improveand had no riht to alienateyet
, g , relinquished the patrimony , with criminal supineness , and left to them , for their inheritance , beggary , and accumulating chains ! ' Compare what ye are with what ye have a right to be . Compare your powers and your faculties with your condition : the bounty of nature with your scanty enjoyments , and unsatisfied wants ; the wealth resulting from your productive labour , and the abject wretchedness of your general state . — Compare these things , and consider well the causes . Trace " them to their
sources , in the nature of some , and the corruptions of other , of those- very institutions of the old Germanic , or Gothic costumary , at the prospect of whose approaching overthrow , the volcanic imagination of Burke points out such deluges , of flame and smoke - Contrast the gloomy intricacy of these oppressive systems—these antique temples of fraud and violence , with the simple plans of reason , and of nature ; and learn , what to avoid , and what to pursue . ' The means , proposed for effecting the desired overthrow , he details in
another part of the pamphlet ; and concisely generalizes to be unanimity and intrepidity in speaking in such an authoritative tone as . shall overawe Government and its Head . ' Next to the abuse of Government , Irreligion and Blasphemy is the chief constituent of this work . Joseph Gerald , transported from Edinburgh to Botany Bay , is compared , in his merits and sufferings , to the Founder of our Religion and Author of our Salvation . Mr . Thelwall ' s impious , as well as
other revolutionary doctrines , are second-hand from Thomas Taine . Among the lower classes of Jacobins , Paine has bred numbers both of democrat ! cat and deistical parrots : —Paine , bad as he is , is an original thinker , not a mere funnel of the noxious doctrines of others . If the design of Thelwall ' s pamphlet be Tragedy , the execution is frequentl y Farce . He draws a modest parallel between himself and Socrates . Socrates , as hesays , was the first Democratieal Lecturer : an assertion from which the
Classical Reader will probably suppose him to be as much acquainted with Socrates ' s lectures , as he afterwards shews himself to be with his history . Socrates ( be says ) was put to death by a conspiracy of Lawyers acting for an Oligarchy . Had Mr . Thelwall read the history of that time , he would have seen that the Oligarchy ( which , by the bye , arose from Democratic folly ) had then ceased to exist ; and that one of the first acts of the restored Democracy was the condemnation of Socrates ; that his accusers were two lecturing Demagogues , and his judges five huudred . of the populace . This was his opinion ; this is the account given b y Xenophon and Plato , his eotemporary Biogra-
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Review Of New Publications.
Having tried to excite the indignation of the populace by the view of present or intended evil , he next addresses himself to their hopes : he encourages the disaffected with an expectation of the approaching overthrow of the establishment . ' If this is not sufficient to open your eyes , the last trump alone can awaken you . If this is not sufficient to rouse you to fresh v i gilance , fresh exertion , closer intercourse , and intrepid unanimity , ye are dead—ye are lost , not onl y « in the oblivious pool , ' but
" In bottomless perdition ;' there todivet ! " In adamantine chains . " Think , I conjure you : — -what is the prospect held out to you ? For yourselves—unqualified submission , or the prompt and destroying vengeance of some new mode of legalized massacre , or military execution : —for your children—the tombstones of progenitors , who , though bom to a degree of freedom , which they were bound to improveand had no riht to alienateyet
, g , relinquished the patrimony , with criminal supineness , and left to them , for their inheritance , beggary , and accumulating chains ! ' Compare what ye are with what ye have a right to be . Compare your powers and your faculties with your condition : the bounty of nature with your scanty enjoyments , and unsatisfied wants ; the wealth resulting from your productive labour , and the abject wretchedness of your general state . — Compare these things , and consider well the causes . Trace " them to their
sources , in the nature of some , and the corruptions of other , of those- very institutions of the old Germanic , or Gothic costumary , at the prospect of whose approaching overthrow , the volcanic imagination of Burke points out such deluges , of flame and smoke - Contrast the gloomy intricacy of these oppressive systems—these antique temples of fraud and violence , with the simple plans of reason , and of nature ; and learn , what to avoid , and what to pursue . ' The means , proposed for effecting the desired overthrow , he details in
another part of the pamphlet ; and concisely generalizes to be unanimity and intrepidity in speaking in such an authoritative tone as . shall overawe Government and its Head . ' Next to the abuse of Government , Irreligion and Blasphemy is the chief constituent of this work . Joseph Gerald , transported from Edinburgh to Botany Bay , is compared , in his merits and sufferings , to the Founder of our Religion and Author of our Salvation . Mr . Thelwall ' s impious , as well as
other revolutionary doctrines , are second-hand from Thomas Taine . Among the lower classes of Jacobins , Paine has bred numbers both of democrat ! cat and deistical parrots : —Paine , bad as he is , is an original thinker , not a mere funnel of the noxious doctrines of others . If the design of Thelwall ' s pamphlet be Tragedy , the execution is frequentl y Farce . He draws a modest parallel between himself and Socrates . Socrates , as hesays , was the first Democratieal Lecturer : an assertion from which the
Classical Reader will probably suppose him to be as much acquainted with Socrates ' s lectures , as he afterwards shews himself to be with his history . Socrates ( be says ) was put to death by a conspiracy of Lawyers acting for an Oligarchy . Had Mr . Thelwall read the history of that time , he would have seen that the Oligarchy ( which , by the bye , arose from Democratic folly ) had then ceased to exist ; and that one of the first acts of the restored Democracy was the condemnation of Socrates ; that his accusers were two lecturing Demagogues , and his judges five huudred . of the populace . This was his opinion ; this is the account given b y Xenophon and Plato , his eotemporary Biogra-