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schoolmaster must be abroad in the form of a newspaper . The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has failed of its original object , by the exclusion of those topics about which people care the most . The large circulation of their publications may have equalled the expectation of its founders , but it is very much amongst a different description of persons from that which they had principally intended to benefit : it is amongst the middle classes , who have also in addition , a sight at least of the newspapers . The books and journals which shall enlighten the whole mass of the community must have an ample proportion of political discussion and information blended with the other knowledge which they communicate . The want exists so strongly and so largely , that provision , such as it is , is continually made for it , in open defiance of the law . This state of things is full of mischief ; it can only be remedied by the repeal of the duties which render newspapers so expensive , and affording similar facilities to those which exist in America for the circulation of journals . So much knowledge has been gained , as to make the communication of as much more as can be imparted , a measure not only of kindness , but of prudence ; not merely a good , but a necessity . We trust the present session of Parliament will not close without this supplement to the Reform Bill . The next step in the order of creation to the production of a world is to say * let there be light , ' without which , that world were but a shapeless mass of conflicting elements .
So much power has been discovered , that the knowledge for its guidance cannot be too rapidly or extensively generated . A fearful amount of distress and suffering must have ensued from the exercise of that power ; it was a last resource , a desperate remed y / and the possibility of an appeal to it cannot be too carefully guarded against . It was only not worse than the reign of terror , which would have been the alternative . The efficient preventive can only be found in the recognition of the people ' s rights , the enlightenment of their minds , and the improvement of their condition . Every man who can in any degree promote these objects should put forth his strength to the work which God hath given him to do .
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America—the nursery of civil freedom ; the growing and vigorous disproof of the theory of the necessity of leavening the reason and the demands of the present age , b y an anomalous admixture with the opinions and institutions which were wisdom to our forefathers , but for the present state of society are worse than foolish * ness ;—that gigantic territory which lay unknown for ages , ripening for the dominion of civilized man , and which less than three ? By Mrs . Xrollope . 2 vols .
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DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS * .
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Domestic Manners ofthe Americans . 401
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1832, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1814/page/41/
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