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Sif dime mk^vih^ Wpming 4 'f Pa^UMeni^ (...
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n ^ yi ^ fiteotnft & iht on the closer Ma & 6 tte ^ pl * # 5 entattive of tfr & se f &^^ ff ysM : remark $ , t $ ti ^ ^ from ieei & ei & ' iiri terminating ; some extraordinary perusal . —r irst t ^ en Jor the Addr e ss .
" TO THE WORKING CLASSES , ON " THE SUBJECT ? OP NATIONAL EDUCATION * . w Brethren , —At this important era of intellectual inquiry , wWft the moralist begins to
doubt the eife & y of his precepts to fcoufcteraet the torrent of pernieious e ^ ample ^ wheri the rigid devised 6 f punishments has beanie sceptical of the efficiency of his enactments—and when
the speculative philanthropist is ttrgmg our inquiry into the Merits ? of National Education as the moat efficient cure for our national evils ; we trust it will
titut be \ thought presumptuous if wey , a portion of that class the Vnostin need of education , should St & te < mr ideas on the subject in eoninioh with others . —We are
the mote induced to do this , as w ^ fear that class interests in sortie , and' unfounded jealousies in others , have their pernicious mftuettees to prevent or mar the ttnbouikd ^ d ^ ood thet t the ! work - ing 'millions must derive from a 11
W ^ ea ' lid ; jtist System of educati « iii ^— As , however , various hflnes * bjiihibng ^ eem td be about equity dividied bdweeri a national & tid an indWdukl system of'instruction ^ We are'desirous erf tWth
^ e ^ tittg « h ^ se' views by whh % ^ e ttoiiQkW & tb * be fi ^ feUiprinm ^ ^ e ^ y ^ therbebt ^ ite ^ idixiby which tb > jttdge all - n « ittonftl ahd 4 m ^ . portant ^ estitos J- ^ -W ^ ^ snme , thm , ^> lui > iftiprinciple , that ? ^ 11 jttj ^ t ^ veriitnen : ^ should seek to pre *
• . ¦¦ '"' . •' , The Queen, The Opening...
vent the gre & tesis possible evil ^ an # to promote the greaitefttamount of
good . Now , if ignorance can b & shown to be the most prolific ? source of evil , and knowledge the most efficient means of happiness , it is evidently the duty of Government to establish for
all classes the best possible system of education . —We further assume , that poverty , inequality v and political injustice are involved in giving to one portion of society the blessing of education arid leaving the other in ignorance—> and therefore the working classes , who
are m general the victims of oppression and ignorance , have just cause of complaint against all partial systems of education . — Now the annual catalogue of crimes in this country affords lamentable proofs of the great neglect of public duties . They will stand in the records of the past as black memorials against the
boasted civilization and enlightened philanthropy of England , whose legislators are famed for devising modes of punishing , and in numerous instances for rostering crime , but exhibit year after year presumptuous proofs of their
great omission to prevent . It will be said of them , that they allowed the children of misery to be instructed in vice , and for minor delinquencies subjected tliem to severity of punishment , which matured and hardened
them m ctome ^ that when * callous to consequences , they > had £ one through all the gradations of wretchedness fk > m th & common prison to the murderers ' cell , that ! their ^ philanthropic judges gravely ; doomed »< ihen * to die , ^ l gave ; them wholesome , ad * - vice , titwd the hopbs of repentvan ^ e- ^ tihiiJt eventttall yv when' the
Sif Dime Mk^Vih^ Wpming 4 'F Pa^Umeni^ (...
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/12/
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