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352 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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late these Vice were -President , at the last , we meeting may , b of y this endeavoring Association to show , set forth their distinctl fallacy , y perhaps by the
lead to a different system being adopted . efficient " The aid objections to Ragged felt b Schools y the Committee , as then stated of Council , reduce on themselves Education then to giving into
the following . in take " the First it country for , that granted in and giving that therefore there educational oug would ht not hel be p to p , erm an mak officer anentl e provision y of a the Ragged State for it . oug School ht not class to
, is carried " Surely on this ! It is not ' arises the from princi a ple wrong on which state the of things government ' unquestionabl of our country y , that the Ragged School exists ; it arises equallfrom a ' wrong state of things *
y that the pauper class exists , —that thousands of our countrymen and women s annuall anitary y condition find it impossible of our larg to e obtain towns an is such honest as to living perpetuate in Engl disease and , —that both the of
And body does and the mind Government , —that crim of e is our constan country tly remain commi passive tted , even , and in allow open of day the . existence of dreadful evils , because these things ought not to exist ; and does
it not become a statesman to do something more than ignore them ? Should he not rather grapple with each evil in such way as appears most for the good of society in general and for the individual concerned ? Does not the
Government provide in such way as seems best for the necessities of market paupers , in — more aid in distant the emi parts gration of the of those empire whose , —grapp labor le vigorousl will find y with a better the
unwholesome condition of streets and alleys , and even of private houses , — _<¦ and with respect to the thousands of criminals who annually spring up afresh and in our otherwise country , provide does it not for them withdr even aw them at the from risk society of appearing , feed and thereb clothe to th dis em - ,
courage the honest laborer , who , has often a far more scanty fare for y himself and family than the pauper and the felon ? No Government does act on 1 such something a princi rotten ple in in other our State matt , ers ' which , —wh poisons y should its it very do core so in — respect the millions to the of
untaug educational ht children establishments who neither . can nor will avail themselves of the higher were " Secondl not in y general , it was the objected children that of ' parents the children who could of the not Ragged paybut School rather class of
, those who would not pay . ' A more extended inquiry on the part of the Committee of Council would have elicited very different results . The fundamental rule of the London Ragged School Unionand of _Ragged Schools in
general , is to admit such children only as cannot , attend the higher schools . Exceptional cases may of course be met with in individual schools , and any departure from the general rule should of course be corrected ; but it cannot
be exercised imagined throug that hout individual the country benevolence unless woul to supp d be l so y largel a very y great and persevering and glaring ly - want . A recent examination into the condition of the children of the Bristol
Ragged School proved that the ' parents of about one-half were actually receiving struggling parochial with difficulty relief ; another to obtain portion their were dail in bread the lowest and depth often s obli of poverty ged to
come to school without having had their morning y meal , ; while a third class were the children of thoroughly dissolute parents , whose vicious habits rendered their children in even a worse condition than the others . The annual visit
of Her Majesty ' s Inspector has always confirmed the belief of the managers , to that have the them children removed were to of the other ' ri schools ght class . ; I ' _^ were owwe it otherwise acknowled , it would that the be easy last
class , viz ., of parents who cannot pay , simply , because they choose ge to spend their seem money that they in vicious are being indul rewarded gence , presents for their an neg apparent lect by a difficulty gratuitous , as education it might
degraded being given a condition to their are children utterl . y careless It is forgotten about the that education parents of in their so low children and
352 Notices Of Books.
352 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/64/
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