The Independent Reflector : : Or, Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects, More Particularly Adapted to the Province of New-York / / William Livingston; ed. by Milton M. Klein.

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1963
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:The John Harvard Library ; 7
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • NOTE ON THE TEXT
  • Number I. The INTRODUCTION, or Design of this Paper
  • Number II. Remarks on the EXCISE; and the Farming it, shewn to be injurious to the Province
  • Number III. The Abuses of the ROAD, and CITY-WATCH
  • Number IV. The different Effects of an absolute and a limited Monarchy: The Glory of a Prince ruling according to Law, superior to that of an arbitrary Sovereign; with the peculiar Happiness of the BRITISH Nation
  • Number V. On the Importation of MENDICANT Foreigners
  • Number VI. A Vindication of the MORAVIANS, against the Aspersions of their Enemies
  • Number VII. A Proposal of some farther Regulations, for the speedier and more effectual Extinguishing of FIRES, that may happen in this City
  • Number VIII. A brief Consideration of NEW-YORK, with respect to its natural Advantages: Its Superiority in several Instances, over some of the neighbouring Colonies
  • Number IX. Public Virtue to be distinguished by public Honours: The Selling of Offices, which require Skill and Confidence, a dismal Omen of the Declension of a State
  • Number X. Remarks on a Petition, preferred to the Corporation in the Year 1748; lately revived, and now under Consultation
  • Number XI. The Authors Vindication of himself: The Treatment he has met with, scurrilous and unreasonable; with his Resolution to proceed; and the Disinterestedness of his Labours
  • Number XII. The Use and Importance of the Practice of PHYSIC; together with the Difficulty of the Science, and the dismal Havock made by Quacks and Pretenders
  • Number XIII. Of PARTY-DIVISIONS
  • Number XIV. [Remarks on the Water Lots, continued]
  • Number XV. The Controversy between the Independent Reflector, and his Adversaries, truly stated, and considered
  • Number XVI. Of the Transportation of Felons
  • Number XVII. Remarks on Our Intended COLLEGE
  • Number XVIII. A Continuation of the same Subject
  • Number XIX. The same Subject continued
  • Number XX. A farther Prosecution of the same Subject
  • Number XXI. Remarks on the COLLEGE continued
  • Number XXII. The same Subject continued and concluded in An ADDRESS to the Inhabitants of this Province
  • Number XXIII. Of PATRIOTISM
  • Number XXIV. Reasons for the farther regulating of Beef and Pork; together with the Necessity of an Act for the Inspection of Butter
  • Number XXV. Remarks on the EXCISE, resumed
  • Number XXVI. Remarks on our BILLS OF CREDIT, and COPPER-PENCE
  • Number XXVII. A PRAYER
  • Number XXVIII. On the Delays in CHANCERY
  • Number XXIX. Of the Extravagance of our FUNERALS
  • Number XXX. The Multiplicity of OATHS, and the Levity and Indecorum wherewith they are administered and taken, pernicious to Society
  • Number XXXI. Primitive CHRISTIANITY short and intelligible, modern CHRISTIANITY voluminous and incomprehensible
  • Number XXXII. Of ELECTIONS, and ELECTION-JOBBERS
  • Number XXXIII. A Discant on the Origin, Nature, Use and Abuse of Civil Government
  • Number XXXIV. Of the Veneration and Contempt of the CLERGY
  • Number XXXV. Of Abuses in the Practice of the LAW
  • Number XXXVI. The Absurdity of the civil Magistrate's interfering in Matters of Religion
  • Number XXXVIII. Of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance
  • Number XXXIX. Further Reflections on the Doctrines of PASSIVE OBEDIENCE and NON-RESISTANCE, drawn from a Consideration of the Rights and Privileges of human Nature, and the due End and Extent of Government
  • Number XL. Of the Use, Abuse, and LIBERTY OF THE PRESS
  • Number XLI. A Defence of RIDICULE
  • Number XLII. The Importance of the Office of a Justice of Peace, with the Qualifications necessary for its due Discharge
  • Number XLIII. The Vanity of Birth and Titles; with the Absurdity of claiming Respect without Merit
  • Number XLIV. The Arguments in support of an ecclesiastical Establishment in this Province, impartially considered, and refuted
  • Number XLV. A Catalogue of sundry Grievances, which require immediate Redress
  • Number XLVl. Of CREEDS and SYSTEMS, together with the Author's own Creed
  • Number XLVII. Of CREDULITY
  • Number XLVIII. Of the WASTE of LIFE
  • Number XLIΧ. Of human Nature, the Immortality of the Soul, and whether it can exist without thinking
  • Number L. The Advantages of Education, with the Necessity of instituting Grammar Schools for the Instruction of Youth, preparatory to their Admission into our intended COLLEGE
  • Number LI. [On the College and the Clergy]
  • Number LII. The Consideration of the natural Advantages of New-York, resumed and concluded
  • APPENDIX I. PLANNED ADDITIONAL NUMBERS OF THE INDEPENDENT REFLECTOR
  • APPENDIX II. THE PROBLEM OF AUTHORSHIP OF THE INDEPENDENT REFLECTOR
  • APPENDIX III. THE INDEPENDENT REFLECTOR AND THE INDEPENDENT WHIG
  • Index