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On the constitution of the church and state according to the idea of each
On the constitution of the church and state according to the idea of each Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH AND STATE, ACCORDING TO THE IDEA OF EACH. CHAPTER I. Prefatory remarks on the true import of the word, Idea; and wh... more »at the A uthor means by the expression, " according to the idea." The Act lately passed for the admission of Roman Catholics into the Legislature comes so near the mark to which my convictions and wishes have through my whole life, since earliest manhood, unwaveringly pointed, and has so agreeably disappointed my fears, that my first impulse was to suppress the pages, which I had written while the particulars of the Bill were yet unknown, in compliance with the request of an ahsent friend, who had expressed an anxiety " to learn from myself tlie nature and grounds of my apprehension, that 10. G. IV. c. 7. " An Act for tbe relief of His Ma- jestv's Roman Catholic subjects."—Ed. the measure would fail to effect the object immediately intended by its authors." In answer to this I reply that the main ground of that apprehension is certainly much narrowed ; but as certainly not altogether removed. I refer to the securities. And, let it be understood, that in callirig a certain provision hereafter specified, a security, I use the word comparatively, and mean no more, than that it has at least an equal claim to be so called, with any of those that have been hitherto proposed as such. ' Whether either one or the other deserve the name ; whether the thing itself is possible ; I leave undetermined. This premised, I resume my subject, and repeat that the main objection, from which my fears as to the practical results of the proposed Bill were derived, applies with nearly the same force to the Act itself; though the fears themselves have, by the spirit and general character of the clauses, been considerably mitigated. ...« less