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    us towards those stronger encouragements and higher stimuli which are found in the contemplation of what our nation is capable of , and the observation of its present woes—still , happily , remediable . The cause usually assigned for the long delay in the prosecution of apian for national education , is the want of leisure in the

    midst of more pressing concerns ; and true it is , that the variety of matters of incalculable importance which have lately claimed , and are still claiming , the attention of the legislature , is enough to perplex any judgment or set of judgments fts to their rights of precedence . But it should be remembered that the probabilities of internal peace and ministerial leisure are much lessened , the longer the people are left in a state of ignorance under increasing burdens , A provision for their education being once established ,

    the people , whose interests are now so difficult to manage , would be converted into co-operators with the government , as long as the government is worthy of their co-operation . Not only would they help to enforce its measures , they would supersede many of its least agreeable and most difficult operations , by becoming , much more generally , willing subjects of the law , useful members of the state , and discoverers of new resources of wealth and

    power . No service is more surely or speedily recompensed than that by which the governed are enlightened by their rulers . If the rulers of England would reap the full reward of such a service , let them offer the boon of a national education while the people are impressed with the magnitude of passing events , and rendered conscious of the necessity of national wisdom to direct ^ and national principle to sanctify , their issues .

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    The early and ( as in the inconsiderate and partial views to which we commonly confine ourselves , we are too apt to regard it ) untimely removal of those who had shown themselves well prepared for a long course of extensive usefulness in this world , is among the difficult dispensations of Divine Providence , which for the present we must be content to receive in silent and humble

    submission . Certainly , if it had rested with us to divert his movements , the messenger of death would never have been sent on such an errand . The world , we think , can ill spare the hopes of the coming age to be thus removed before their time;—we have no superfluity of talent or virtue among us , nor any deficiency of important and honourable stations in which those valuable qualities might have been employed for the benefit of mankind . If , then , it had rested with us to select the victims for the great destroyer , * Sermons and Occasional Services selected from the papers of the late Rev . John Hixickft , with a Memoir of the author , by J . H , Thorn .

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    694 National ^ Education .

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    HINCKS'S SERMONS * .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/44/