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sender . Or if there be any dlFFsretice , the advantage must ht on the side of the establishment ; supposing its claims to be founded on Scripture , and granting , as l ) r . M , has elsewhere assumed , that we have no reasons for dissent ! Let him not lightly infer that , if dissenters countenance a judicious plan for the instruction of the children of the poor , hostility is meditated to church and state .
This is alarm , and , as fear awakens other painful and some un * kind feeling ? , it is a pernicious as well as false alarm The general adoption of the Lancastrian system by the dissenters ^ has been owinu first to their conviction of
its superior excellence , in point of mechanism and ( Economy * secondly to its being submitted to public and general use before Dr , Bell ' s was employed witiiin the united kingdoms .
P . fa . ** instead therefore of a&vanltigt from that neutrality , we may certainly expect the reverse . ' * A learned member of the
university of Cambridge and zealous minister of the establishment , re . gards this neutrality with more correctness as convertible to the
purposes of any religious denomination , to those , of course , of his own communion : and he has therefore avowed himself a friend of the Lancastrian system of instruction . * It is not that Mr .
Deallry surpasses Dr . Marsh in talents ' or attainments : but , happily , he does not write under the influence of the same alarm ; nor does he suppose that the churxh is . ' . endangered when bibles are circulated without liturgies , ni } d
' ¦¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' < }—— — « ? ttealtnr ' s Reply to Wordswoitli .
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children taught to read the volume of salvation * P . 14 . ct Tbe mechanical part has ad . vantages which nx > other system pos sesses * *' We must remind t ) r . M . and our readers that the whole of Lancaster ' s system is mechanical . He reasons as though this mechanism were either defective or iru jurious , as though it is not and cannot be directed to any specific religious objects We have heard indeed of the recent suprise of certain church dignitaries on learning that in all the
Lancastrian schools the children read the bible , and that in some of them the collects aitd catechism of the establishment are regularly used .
P . 15 . * It was invented more than twenty years ago by a clergyman of our own chutch , who also first practised it , and practised it tvith great success , in a public institution at Madrass . ' *
The question is > by whom and at what time was it first practiced and applied to general instruction in England . We think very highly of Dr . Bell : we acknowledge Mr . Lancaster s obligations to him .
But . we also know that this 6 C intelligent and active man" so irmch improved on the plan as to be well entitled to all the patronage which he has received . If Dr- M . is desirbus of making
himself acquainted , with the facts of the case , we refer him to the pamphlet of Mr * Joseph Fox . Some considerable persons , who at present are strenuous advocates for the exclusive use of
th 6 system of Dr . Bell , requested Mr . Lancaster to undertake the organization of the i r sc hools , whvn those scho ^ s were ekhe * forced or newly modelled . The application was successftil : and a & *
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554 Professor Mur $ h * s Sermon oh Education *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/42/
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