The Smuggler: A Tale - Tapa dura

The Smuggler inT heS tand ard Novels, illustrative of the real grounds upon which it has been built, we comply, as follows: It owes its conception to a wish an anxious wish to indicate to those whom it most concerns, Firstly The effects upon the minds, manners, and actions of the lower, and not a few of the middle orders of England, of laws, said to be laws made by the rich against the poor :S econdly The effects upon the minds, manners, and actions of the same classes, of a church, legally supported, in taxing their daily labour, at the perilous risk (perilous to an incalculable magnitude !) of leaving them to the edification of self-called, fanatical, unedu cated, and presumptuous expounders of THE WORD OF GOD. For this task, few needful preparations were, it is conscientiously hoped, left unattempted.
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