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SOCIAL PROGRESS-PROGRESS OP THE REDEMPTION SOCIETY,The people can never be free till they are capitalists* I and educated. Political reforms may facilitate* but can I never accomplish either of these blessings. Political I reforms will not give capital to the people, and without I it they never will be educated; and hence, cannever be I free in that high sense of the word in which we of the gommunal faith understand it. Do we then deprecate I political reforms ? Far from it j we seek them rather; I but not with the same view as the mere politician, I With him these are ultimate ends. Place and power 1 for Radicalism, or Chartism, and the practical working of the four, or six points* of the sutnmum bonum of the mere I politician. Some of the people are led to believe, I that these acquired happiness is attained. ^ We have I nothing to say against political equality; justice de- I mands it, but the people cannot too often be told that I political* is not social equality. We say not this to I repress political ardour, but to prevent disappoint- I ment, and instruct the people in their true interest. It | is not incompatible with a proper zeal for political re- I forms to labour for social amendments at the same time. I The study of one subject generally leads to narrow- | ness of mind and intolerance. Now the latter has I been detrimental to the cause of those who have prac- I tised it. The study of the social question more than I anything else perfects a man in political philosophy. I Democracy, when viewed through the old doctrines of I political science, is a mere battle of classes and races, I but seen through the social media it is an angel of I peace, reconciling the jarring interests of mortals. I Social democracy sees no enemy in an aristocracy, j It says u These are men which the false systems of the I world have made them what we see them. When a J child is born in the aristocratic classes, it is swathed j in down; gentlest whispers, sweetest murmuring I music lulls its infant cares to rest. It breathes a per- I fumed air—luxurious forms await the gradual opening J of its visual scene, and worship watches at its couch-— j even in childhood his first lisped words are eagerly obeyed—in boyhood his will is a command—in hood his gesture is a bow-—all heads bow, and all knees bend to him. Take the child of the meanest outcast of this world, and train him thus, and you makea lord, or a duke, of him. Man cannot know more than jhie tenses will admit of, sad whin through thtso ,
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London Spirit of Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jun 30, 1849
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