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party politics of the country. These contests 

 are the natural offspring of freedom ; and, they 

 tend to perpetuate that which produces them. 

 I look at the people as a whole ; and I love them 

 and feel grateful to them for having given the 

 world a practical proof, that peace, social 

 order, and general happiness can be secured, 

 and best secured, without Monarchs, Dukes, 

 Counts, Baronets, and Knights. I have no 

 unfriendly feeling towards any Religious So 

 ciety. I wish well to every member of every 

 such Society ; but, I love the Quakers, and feel 

 grateful towards them, for having proved to the 

 world, that all the virtues, public as well as 

 private, flourish most and bring forth the fairest 

 fruits when unincumbered with those noxious 

 weeds, hireling priests. 





THOMAS HULME. 



