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• . ¦¦ '"' . •' , The Queen, The Opening...
lfent dissociation , in the words of their friend O'Connell ; " Agitate- —Agitate—Agitate ; " and peaceably , as he agitdtes . Peafee & bieness tod
Pel-severaiice will enable them to procure for ErigMhd , wh & t the same liidcte of urging the claims of justice has done , and is doing " , for Ireland . Look at the admirable , new document which this association has just put forth on the subject of National
Education , — another St ate-Paper in the highest and most dignified sense of that term , for it treats of the noblest interests of the State , and treats them with as much sincerity as knowledge . Good God ! what
a noble p & pef it is ; and what a noble p & pei- it is ; and what a sigri of the times ! Compare it with the Speech put into the mouth of the good little Queen , and see ( we say it not in disrespect towards anybody , but
out of the force of truth , and a happy anticipation of better days for all ) see indeed what a puppet royalt y becomes by the side of it ! We were afraid , when we first took it up , that it was going to be too well written ;—we mean , in point
of that correctness of style wnich any one may be taught , aiid which would have probably shown it to be the composition of one who was not amojig the uneducated . But our fearp were * relieved by
certain little superfluities of case and conjunction , precious in our eyes ; for they showed that tftfc rfeal elbquenck of the thing wm pufk jiiat fs wolrft , ahfl WineSt-jfiirid ^ deeft-lieartea
• . ¦¦ '"' . •' , The Queen, The Opening...
thought . It is not cjuitfe free from retrospective blame ofthfc richer classes * —men whom it must acquit frotri repro & ch , by very reason of the partial education which it justly deplores , and to which it traces the
illusage of the poorer . But this is another proof of its beinggenuine ; and is a blot which the current of such thoughtful hearts will before long * quite
clear away , as it runs . We are loth to kfcep the reader any longer from it , for we are proud and happy to coply the whole into our pages ; but we beg hint to read , more than once ,
and to sis many of his friends as possible , the passages , we have marked in italics , ahdi particularly to notice how jtlst and unlimited is the education it demands for all ; how shrewd the declaration against
government-appointments of teachers ; —how wise the provision required for the physical as well as moral welfare of the rising generation;—how unvulgar and large-minded the value put upon the imaginative faculty ( which is to turn to accoiirit tfi 6
beauties of creation ); & nd lastly , how triumphant Sfiovfe sectarian claims ( yet not without acknowled g ment of the good they have done ) the references to the only final flower of all religion and all knowledge , —the Christian doctrine of " Love one another . "
One word of preface more , —in a quotation frdm the eloqttettt atid deeply thittkittig * pages of the True 8 m . Biit gtay—W 6 will keep tHfe By
Address Of The Workiify Men On National ...
Address of the Workiify Men on National ESkaMm . 3 fS *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/11/
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