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affording the most important advantages to great numbers both of ministers and laymen . I need only , mention the names of the similar institutions supported for a time at Manchester and Hackney , as proving the anxiety of many amongst the Presbyterian Dissenters respecting the liberal education both of their ministers and , as far as circumstances would admit , of their laity also . But Manchester College , York , the seminary on which we now chiefly rely for our supply of ministers , though your correspondent seems not aware even of its existence , certainly not of its character , claims a more particular notice . This institution is furnished with an extensive and valuable
library , and a collection of philosophical apparatus . Its three tutors are all of them eminent in their several departments . A highly accomplished teacher of modern languages is now added to its establishment , and occasional instructions have been obtained in elocution and in botany . Not a few of its students have already greatly distinguished themselves , or are rising to eminence both as ministers and in various other situations in life , and they none of them can pretend to the merit of having " educated themselves . " " The proper discipline and instruction have been afforded , " and they have only not entirely neglected the advantages offered to them .
I am , Sir , a sincere well-wisher to the London University , and estimate very highly the benefits it promises to confer . To the inhabitants of the Metropolis and its vicinity it will be inestimable , and indeed to those in every part of the kingdom , who wish their sons to be able to study law and medicine without submission to creeds , or slavery to antiquated forms , or who , belonging to the Established Church , desire the advantage of an improved system of education . But I must maintain that the Dissenters in general should not be represented as indifferent to the education of their
youth , or as having done nothing effectual to promote it . Parents connected with our body , who are especially anxious that their sons should acquire the habit of judging for themselves , should be imbued with the principles of civil and religious liberty , should be instructed in the evidences of natural and revealed religion , so as to acquire a steady and rational faith , and should be guarded from dissipation and immorality , will still prefer their own institutions aa most suited to their views , and shew that though the public requires a London University , they in particular have been in advance on their age , and have provision already made for their wants .
H . [ We have given ready insertion to the preceding letter . We agree with our ' respected correspondent that the language employed by the friend who favoured us with his thoughts on the London University , on which he animadverts , seems to needg some qualification . But we are quite sure that it was far from his intention to depreciate the existing academical institutions
among the Dissenters . His main object in this part of his paper , as it appears to us , was simply to declare his opinion that those institutions , on their present limited scale , were of themselves inadequate to supply the means of intellectual education to the Dissenting population at large ; and , on this account , tp recommend the London University to the support of the Dissenters , as promising to furnish the requisite additional facilities for this purpose . In this view of the case , we do not conceive that H . will widely differ from him . Edit . ]
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 256, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/24/
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