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wasliis ruin ; as it had been the ruin of Charles the First before him , Had those princes kept their words , they
would have kept their heads ; and if they could have had discernment enough to anticipate the ivants of the people , their names would have been idolized
by the world ' s gratitude . But these are among the things which princes require to be told , in order to perfect their educations ; for , as the Working-men truly and affectingly , and we may add awfully ,
tell their Sovereign ( though in no frightful sense of the word " awe , " but only from the newness and magnificence of the fact of the Poor Many instructing in this manner the Rich Few ) the whole " education of mankind" is 6 <
defective . " The poor know this , and have too great reason to feel it . Helplessness has taught it them . Misfortune has taught it them . Strange half-starved labour has taught it them . Strange aristocratical
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sights , and silly displays of will , and injustice , and profligate expenditure , have taught it them . But out of extreme suffering , and patient reflection , comes the flower of all
knowledge , which is charity ; and if this is not as visible as the suffering itself in the address before us , it is implied in the most important part of it , and in these words to which we have
just alluded , —the " defective education of mankind ;"—and we must say , that in their power to utter these words , and in the unfortunate inability of our young and respected Sovereign
to dare to give them an answer , the honest observer , who is anxious for the good of all , cannot but quit the perusal of the address with an impression , that the poor have , on this
occasion , advanced in front of the rich , as teachers and superiors ; and that it is the sworded and bag-wigged who are at fault , and not the heads which declined to dress themselves up like footmen .
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INSCRIPTION ON A STATUE OF EPICTETUS .
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310 Inscription on a Statue of Epictetus .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/14/
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