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424 NOTICES OF BOOKS,
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instituted for the benefit of these lowest children , and after _" _giving to him that hath that he may have more abundantly , " actually takes
should away froni be g him iven that him hath ! Miss not , the Carpenter little to which , state in the it of had very seemed able which pamp desig it hlet ned is
of before the us utmost , calls importance the _piiblic should attention be gen a erally under things stood before the t l parliamentary grant is debated in the House .
nexannua the B grant y a minute which had of the been Committee previously of vouchsafed Council of to December Ragged Schools , 1857 ,
them was virtuall alone was y withdrawn aidedand ; that all other is to education say the industrial left unassisted element . The in
real onus of their , support is therefore thrown upon private benevolenceBut the labors of fourteen yearswhich have
es-. , tablished beyond all doubt or question the incalculable utility of such schoolshave yet left it evident that the resources of private
charity are not , sufficient to meet all the cost , and that the energies of the managers are most cruelly cramped by the deficiency of
funds . One cause of this deficiency is patent—Ragged Schools neither are and the must church be p nor erfectly unsectarian sect of dissenters . The adopts consequence them nor is g that ives any
ordinary them children congregational are patrons out of of the support education pale of . societ , In by every y the . They public sense are of at the large disowned word , and the by by poor the the
the _churches mercies , and ( tender now they , indeed are , disowned but unhapp by il the y very state feeble also ) , of and the left few to benevolent individuals who have interested themselves in their central
behalf . Yet , as we have seen , here , if anywhere , lies the point strongest whereto efforts our A Moral government Sanitary inspector Reform speaks ought in to one direct of his its
. reports h of they the " " grovelling grovel" But condition who " is of to the blame Ragged ? Is Schools it those ; True who
enoug . g Is ive it something the individuals r , or those who who labor give nothing arduousl r , towards in this supporting most humble them ? y
demns the field emp , or them ire the almost government because unaided , in itself sooth by , the which they national " leaves grovel wealth these " in a schools , and state then alone of semi con in - -
, vitality "We beg and our partial friends inutility to . acquaint themselves with the pamphlet
wherein Miss to be Carpenter known so has briefl stated and this lucidl case , and that quoted an hour all the ' s atten facts - y y
tion necessary will suffice to put the reader in possession , of the whole . Then , do by much urging to the awaken claim the s of public these int schools erest , and each att , in ention her . own Especi circle all , may y is
it desirable that members of parliament should be induced to study to the vote subject for , liberal and be assistance prepared , to when the Ragged the next Schools grant is made " as an , ( in integral May , )
part ( and a most important integer ) of the educational , movement of
the country . _"
424 Notices Of Books,
424 NOTICES OF BOOKS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/64/
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