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and wealth at their disposal, could only he persuaded to 
thrust aside the petty jealousies and cares, the idle 
parade and prejudices of society, and join heart and 
hand in the great work of human improvement, how 
much might be effected ! How much happier, and how 
much better all might become, if a sound and universal 
spirit of philanthropy were once awakened, capable of 
embracing within its pale all orders and conditions of 
men: considering them as they really are, the children of 
one common Parent, bound together by the ties of 
brotherhood, each having a special duty assigned to 
him to perform, not independently of, but in conjunc¬ 
tion with the rest, and exciting all to render each other 
mutual assistance in surmounting the difficulties and 
trials of this life of discipline and pupilage.” * 
Fownes. 
