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respecting * Sir I . Newton _^ s monument nave led to ascertaining thai Simpson had made the same approaches towards the modern
improvement of the calculus which its illustrious inventor himself had done , but kept concealed ; and no doubt can be entertained that the
germ of the great discovery of Lagrange and £ _ia Place on the stability of the solar system is to be found in the last and most
remarkable work of Simpson . It is truly delightful to contemplate such feats of genius , so scantily aidedin a hard-working mechanic
, _, patronised by none . "Again , of the modern student , —there lies before me a short
treatise by a working man , popularly written , _becaiised it is addressed to his fellow workmen in the same line of employment , "with the
view of removing the prevalent but dangerous delusions on the subject of capital and wages , by explaining the true principles of
economical science on this head . No student of that philosophy at either of the English , nay , at any of the Scotch Universities
* where it is more studied , could have _prodiiced a better reasoned tract , or one shewing more entire acquaintance with the principles .
It is the work of a common shoemaker in the midland counties ? whose attention was turned to the discussion of the subject by the
injuries which the strikes and combinations of his brother _workmen were doing to their own interests .
We may add that the modern student may pay his first debt of thanks to Lord Brougham himselfwhen he remembers that
, obscurity need no longer depress his energies , nor poverty curtail his powers .
. On Wednesday , the Hon . W . Cowper , M . P ., President of the Department of Education , delivered a long address , in which we
particularly notice his remarks on the want of collective generalisation upon those facts which we do possess , or might possess if we
endeavored to secure them , relating to the effects of education on the career of the grown up man . He says on this head .,
—" Some managers , it is true , have taken pains to trace the career of young people who have left their schools ; and statistics are
occasionally collected , such as those which the Admiralty can furnish , with respect to the boys who enter the navy from the Greenwich
Hospital schools * These boys are traced through the ships in which , they serve , and have been found amply to justifyby their
acquire-, ments and superior conduct , the trouble and expense incurred in their education . But such information is rare and exceptional ;
and even the records of the previous _ediication of prisoners are not available for very safe or general conclusions . "
We also find the following mention of Female Reformatories . " My remarks have hitherto chiefly applied to male prisoners . The
treatment of female prisoners will probably be rendered more systematic when the large metropolitan prison at Mountjoyespecially intended
, for them , shall have been completed . It can never become so easy
in their case to apply the same number of progressive _stages which
152 The Meetings At Liverpooi..
152 THE _MEETINGS AT _LIVERPOOI ..
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/8/
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