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If a ii&tfpfe * whQ does not thipk , Lt Sol doing whftt-Jtie can , to perpe-Lte the number arid respectability V the dissenting body , be is discharging a < My to the civil liberties of his country , and the true interests of religion—if there be any one calling hi mself a Uuitarian , who cares not whether bis children will bear their
testimony to this fundamental doctrine of reason and scripture , or relapse into conformity with a Trinitarian church , I cannot expect that any appeal of mine will rouse him to a proper feeling on the subject . If , how-€ ver , there should be any , who do value their own religious principles and wish their children to adhere to
them , and yet think they may safely leave them to associate almost exclusively with members of tine establishment , or join habitually in its worship , during , the period of their ! education , they must be very little aware of the effect which habit ,
combined with the other motives which draw back ; dissenters to the bosom of % church , is likely to have upon thejn in future life . It i $ not in the earlier part of educatipft that "dissenters are chargeable with this carelessness or inconsistency . Their . children , if sent from home ,
usually receive initiatory learning at Dissenting Schools ; and certainly whatever may hafe been the case , no one now can pleud that he is under the necessity of sending his son to s » school kept by a member of the Establishment , because he could not be
J ^ a goo d scholar qny -where else . formerly , a school terminated the education of all , but those intended for professions , or of young men of peat , expectations ; it still does of a ' ^ number amongst ourselves , and *} U more generally among the
ortho-, * Dissenters . For many years past , pwever , the increased desire ofknowe ( fe which has arisen , among other wises , from *^ improving condition J the community at large , has creat-J a necessity for extending the limits . > . cp urse of education . Parents na ~ wish to
^ Y their children possess r ^ hing beyond the mere elcmen-SLf wle ^ 8 whk ; h can . only save ]? ' ' the imputation of ignorance of ^ something . of the wonders thC ¦ and *** && *} philosophy—of wS ^^ P ^ # fo-pp | itic al m iencc ^^ qedlucfid firotti the History
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of Man , and the investigation © f his moral nature ; , of the literature of their own and foreign nations , which forms so large a topic of discussion in every refiued society . To meet this increased desire of knowledge , the plan of education amongst us has been enlarged . At Daventry , at Hackney , at Warringtou , at the Academical Institution formerly in this place , and now removed to York , it has been made an object to prevent the
necessity of our youth being sent to English or Scotch Universities for the completion of their studies , by offering them an opportunity of pursuing a similar , in some paints even a more extensive , course . The
Trustees of the last mentioned institution have very recently laid fcbe particulars of the plan of study pursued there before the public , r / ho can thus judge how far it is calculated to attain the
end which it proposes- I believe few will deny , that a young man who has been led through such a course , with proper attention on his own part , will have acquired ail extent and variety of knowledge , and a general
enlargement of mind , of which he will continue to reap th # fruits as long as foe lives . ; The number of Lay-students at York has varied , but I think it never has been such as might have been
expected from the numbers , opulence , and love of knowledge which are to be found in that class of Dissenters with which it is virtually connected * though it disclaims all party objects ,
and opens its dcors , without regard to religious denomination . This has been owing in a slight degree perh :-ips to young men having been sent to an English University , more , I am inclined to think , to their
increased resort to the Scotch , I believe that very inaccmrate ideas prevail respecting the discipline and course of education at the Scottish Universities ; for I can hardly suppose that if they were accurately known , parents would not be deterred frbtw exposing their children to the hazard
of wasting at least , if not misemploying , so precious a portion of thefir lives . In noue of them is there any ' kind of discipline or controul over the students , beyond fines for nottA attendance , or non-performances ^ of exercises j in the University of Edinburgh i > pt ev ^ n tlm degree of ^ super-
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Necessity ^ X a ^^^ ntintf Education for Lay Dissenter's . 287
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/23/
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