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    Art . I . A Comparative View of the Two New Systems of Education forthe Infant Poor •; in a Charge / delivered to the Clirgy vftke Officially of the Dean and Chapter of Durham , 1811 . By the Rev . R . G . Bowyer , LL . Bl Prebendary of Durham , and Official . London . Rivingtons . 8 vo . pp . 18 1811 .

    Art . II . A Vindication of Dr . Bell ' s System of Tuition ^ in a Series cf Letters . By Herbert Marsh D . D . F ; ft . S . Margaret Professor of Divinity , m Cambridge . London ,

    Rivingtons , £ vo , pp . 32- 1811 . In our views of the nature and importance of education , we agree , for the ljnost part , with Mr . Bowyer : and we fear that numbers of indigent children are destitute of

    its blessings * We doubt , neverthelesS ) whether the > evii is such as to call for a remedy : which' * must owe its geneTaJreffic&cy to the sanction and suppo ^ jt of 4 he legislature : "

    ( p .-7- ) nor can we approve of the intimation that the object might perhaps he best accomplished by 44 ve&ting a large discretionary power , in the hands of persons

    whoae residence and employments give them a competent knowledge of local peculiarities and exigencies . " ( jbO To make education the business of the ? state , is neither

    requasil ^ nor adviseable : liacts shew , that th ' e efforts 4 > f individuals a ^ id of voluntary societies , i at the same time that they are safer , are likely to be , iar more useful ; and we coafoiis thftt ^ ajft Britons and

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    Protestants , we deprecate the day when this tc large discretionary power'' shall be entrusted to

    gentlemen in the commission of the peace or in holy orders . That Dr . Bell is - a most respectable presbyter " of the English church , we are neither able rlor inclined to question . As little are we disposed to conceal or colour the fact that Mr . Lancaster

    is " a professed dissenter . ' * ( 8 ) . It is not with the jnen , but with their comparative ex < rtions , that we are now concerned . " The Madras system , * ' says Mr-Bowyer , ( ib ) < : c "wks read , talked of with 'WQuider and praise ; \> ut the relation / of it vras soon laid asi d ^ , and almost

    forgotten The men of the world had all of them something else to 4 W And is it not strange J beyond belief , that if the established cle rgy ^ whom , however , h ^ wiH hardly include under ¦ ¦ ** -tbe men of the world ^' were then a ^ ware of the Madras system being particularly calculated for the is ^ rv ^ ce q (

    the hierarchy , ; theyididr > not bring it into public use ? Either they had no such persuasion , or they were criminally remiss , in disregarding their . convictions . Will the Official of Durham alsoinforna

    us , why , in the mean time , nunru bers of * the . men 6 i the wtorid ** were ea ^ er to patronize the Laru castrian plan ot education ? < c From this general apatfhj , " he remarks , ^ two- or three individuals must be excejp fed ; and one of them had the merit of first putting the plan in p ^ , ticc in England , and of exhibiting it » powerful operation in a tuburb bt thb mettopolit ; oa which account , and lor

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    ** Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/45/