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feuits of their neglect and folly were exhibited on the gallows , thiey gave the public an opportunity or feasting their brutal appetites with the quivering pangs of
ma 4 dened and injured humanity . —Apart , then , from those benevolent feelings of our nature , which should urge us to save a human being from destruction under all circumstances- —should
it not stimulate us , as fellowcitizens , to prevent those beings from becoming the ignorant and degrading disturbers of our peace ; against whom our lives and property are not secure with all our vigilance and precaution ? As parents , too , is it
not our special duty to prevent the evils of vice by the regenerating influence of knowledge , when our children may hourly Buffer from pernicious example ; and whose eyes and ears , with all our anxiety , we cannot shut against the brutal behaviour and
foul language which ignorance engenders . Nay , how many fond parents , who have carefully trained up their offspring free from such - contamination , and have sought by the most judicious
education in their power , to fortify them against the evils to which they might hereafter be exposed , have yet been compel Ie 4 to witness the powerful and seductive vices which the
want of intellectual and moral training has , made > fashionable in society > , blighting , all their hopes mid ( derives U ^ -There : is , indeed , scarcely a * situation in life as
citfam & j fathers , or , brother wiheme »< thei ^ pressing demand ^ | pi duty should not awaken us to jtUfc dang # P & and mnmquxeneefrpf ' . igr nouanee ^ . ancLj thfe necessity of a nlor ^ jua ^ fu } ftiuLte & tenftad ? system
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of - education . —hRubt , f » nh & ppjt ] $ r * though the time has gpne fey | f ; $$ the selfisjb and bigot ^ possessory of wealth to confine tfratytessipp _^ _ M _ I ^ ¦ —^^ I ^ bJ ^ . ^ m . . . * I 4 b . ^ h . ¦ ¦ ta ^^^ ' ^ fc * | _^ _ _ ^ M ¦ ¦ — — 01
„ _ ^— Knowledge wwpuy y viimn tft ^ i : own narrow circle , and by eve / ry despotic artifice to blobk lip each cranny through which intellectual light might break out upon the multitude , yet still so much of the selfishness of caste
is exhibited iw their fettersp on the press , in their colleges of re * strictlon and privilege , < an ( l , in their dress and badge proclaiming charity schools , > as to convince us that they gtill considerr ^ U ^
cation as the ; r ownpmrogativQ ^ a boon to be sparingly . confer $ ed upon the multitude , instead of a universal instrument fqr advaming the dignity of man , and f & gladdening his existence . Yet-the selfishness of those exclusive
fails not to react upon them & elvw ; the joint influence of the poverty and ignorance their folly has produced , Jill them with the cares of the present , and dark forebodings of the future . The , modieuni of mentaf light they have permitted , or failed to restrain , has been
sufficient to expose their grosfl selfishness , but not to generate th $ spirit qferdiqhtened benevolence q wcljusr iwe * Thanks , howevjer . ^ , to fcliG , $ e latent energies whiqh havifc ^ ii ^ ulated the few to investigsMjion - airid inqniry , that light is now diffuBing itself in spite of all th ^ bar ^ - riera of pride anflpow ^ r ? and ,, we hope , is teaching all ( classy < to the
j > ercei ^ e | lnippvtftniee ^ . n ^ meFiel y sof cultiyaMngj ike # vtf * pf fading a , tt < d writing , bu £ of a } l tho $ e higher 4 lfocuHfesMl f j whi ^ bountiful mature h ^ s ^ wiverr sajjyJ > eBt 0 ne ( lrrrmt ., Up sj # e |^ n ig ^ owanpei j of » b $ 4 iv ^ r ^ d , ; to ^ ice > lmt } doubtless \ to < womwef 4 $ \ awd
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/13/
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