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and now manifest the most rabid spleen at the appearance of eye ^ y fr ^ fb aspttan t in that walk where they hav e taUStfTfef — and shamed themselves . To use gross and irrelevant personalities , is to confess the absence of just grounds for attack ; anq to garble and play foul tricks with extracts—so as to give them , by an absurd juxtaposition , the incoherent appearance of " crossreadings "—is only to attain the rank of a charlatan . This will sdoti be stopped ; for those who bedizen themselves with ! the
soiled and cast-off clothes of Christopher North , are more than " a day too late . " Public criticism must not emulate the language of the intoxicated outcasts of society : nor be permitted to assimilate itself , by felonious practices , with those whose misdirected and unhappy course necessarily leads them to punishment at the cart ' s tail , or ultimately to suffer by the laws of their country . Moreover , " Edina hath a voice ! " Thus
much by way of a primary hint : in some other publication , inore suited to the purpose , we may possibly return to these w instructors" of the public—giving an analysis of their works , present position , and principles of action , which will rather tend to diminish the erroneous estimate they form of that sort of power , which is the mere effervescence of vicious morbidity , originating in the reckless despair of all good in themselves . R . H . H .
Education Reform ; or the Necessity of a National System of Education . By Thomas Wyse , Esq . M . P . Vol . I . Longman and Co . " Mere Act of Parliament Reform has never of itself regene" rated a nation ; to be good for anything , Reform must first " begin in the nation ' s heart * * * Teach and habituate the
" people to make right use of the faculties which Qod has " given to them , and then trust them fearlessly to themselves . ' Acting upon this indisputable doctrine , Mr Wyse proceeds to expose the necessity that exists for a national system of education in this country , and discusses with much perspicuity and
vigour the principles upon which it may be most efficiently and permanently organized . The necessity for educational reform is obviousl y urgent ; the physical , intellectual , and moral energies of society yet require to be roused ; the star of civil and religious liberty shears at present only a feeble ray of light on the horizon of our future hopes ; and it is fit that all who are the
rea | friends of liberty should be up and stirring . We congratulate , therefore , the ( fiends of true and p hilosophical reform on t } ie appearance of tbe present volume ; it is / we hope , the herald ot the regeneration wbigb it advocates ; and we capnot too strongly recommend ty to t ^ e attention oi j all wlio feel interested in y 0 momentous and universally important subject .
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254 Critical Notices .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/64/
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