13. The Monthly Repository is also in part a Theological
Maga- zine, in a very different interest. The editor of it is the Reverend W. J. Fox, the Unitarian minister, a preacher of very high powers. The Number for this month contains a striking philosophical article on the Fast Day and the Cholera. It points out very forcibly the want of harmony between the present governments of Europe and thenations they rule; exemplifying it in the instance of the feeble moral power they exercise over their subjects. Mr. Fox (the article is no doubt his) thinks that things will never go well until this harmony is restored. We see no necessity for its restoration. Let governments confine themselves to acts which can be enforced : what have they to do with moral power ? In all matters, as in the instance of the Fast Day, where moral power is required to procure attention, they had much better be quiet and mind their own business. In the early stages of the history of government, the moral and the political sanctions were confounded; they are now partly separated, and we trust they will never be rejoined.
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