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St . Paul , London , on Thursday , June 13 , 181 1 : beitig the Time of the yearly Meeting of the Children educated in the C /
iarity Schools in and about the Cities of London and Westminster . To which is added ^ a Collection of Notes , containing Proofs dud Illustrations . By HerbertMarsh , D . D . F . R . S
Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge . Second Ed . London , printed for Kivmgtons . Svo * pp . 33 . We allow that it is the right of the members of the church of
tngland to lead their offspring into an early acquaintance with doctrines and ceremonies which are objects of their own attachment : and we perceive with pleasure , yet without surprise , that
Dr . Marsh abstains from personal hivective , and disxlaims stny thing like intolerance , in urging the pretensions of the national religion to be the foundation of national education . At the same
time , we are of opinion that he does not exhibit a just view of the comparative merits of Dr . Bell and Mr .-Lancaster , as the'Vespective inventors and conductors of
systems for communicating elementary knowledge to the children of the poor : we cannot always subscribe to his statements
or acquiesce in his reasonings ; we think that occasionally , though undesignedly , he has advanced or insinuated charges which he cannot sustain against those who
differ from him——and to his sermon we still more strongly object that it is calculated to k ^ ep alive and extend needless suspicions and injurious alarms . It will be necessary that we support these objections , for which
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purpose \ nt shall animadvert upcr what we deem the most excem ^ onable passages of ihe discourse " W- K ZJ ' TF * re u gion b ? Iaw esta . bhshed ifmst always be ffegardt d as the national ' religion . " Here Dr . M . removes the am . biguity of his title-page . What , however , is the fact ? To say nothing of Great Britain , lor
us survey the state of things in Ireland , ask , whether the religion established there by law be in any other sense the national religion than as it is exclusivel y invested by the civil government with Wealth and honour ?
Certainty the religion of the bulk of the nation is not in that country the religion which is established by the laws . Ife > note ( 3 ) . « In all countries , both ancient and modern , the religion of the state Bas been the basis of education for
the citizens of that £ tate . " But what if , as in the instance just produced , the religion of the state and the religion of ihe bulk of the natron happen to be different ? Dr . M ., ' moreover , has
not forgotten to inform us that at least our own country furnishes one exception , ( p * 8 note 4 . ) Besidesi , national education is not necessarily education prescribed by law : it usually means general education , whether conducted
under the official or the private patronagtt of « ien in power . P . 6 . * The good effects of this system [ parochial education ] in Scotland on the religion there established is ( file ) known to every frian \ frho is acquainted with that part of our island /' Its good effects on the general habits of the people are known not merely ^ o every man ^ ho is acquairitecl with that ptirt of otr island , but further to every man who has met with any of the iw-
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$ 52 " Professor Mars&s Sermon on Education .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/40/
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