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mmmmm Essay on Popular Plans of Education * Feb . 7 V 1814 . II csf ttts probable que le genre huxftain eat susceptible d ' education , aussi bicn que chaque homrac , et qu'il y a des epoques marquees p * ur les progres < de 3 a pens £ e dans la route etemelle du temps . Mad * de StaeL figfe .
Education is of such incomparable value in my opinion , that I cannot help coveting the , condition of every man mho is rendered capable of conducting it with efficacy and extent . G . Wakefield .
It is an important fact that the nurhber of persons who suffered death from the hands of the exe * cutioiier in the several reigns of Henry the Vlflth , and of his daughter Elizabeth , far exceeded those who have died on the scaf .
fold through any succeeding reigns of the same or of a proportionate length . During that period , and to ? some time after the Reformati on , the elements of useful know . le | gewere not communicated to tfte children of the poor . Provision had doubtless been made by TEdward the Sixth , ar ^ d by the
queen whom I have already mentioned , fbr extending in some measure the blessings of education . The mass of the people , however , were left in the grossest and , as might have been supposed , irre - mediable ignorance .
After the Revolution , the dread entertained by our ancestors of the relig ious and political tenets of * the exiled family , gave birth , iu concurrence with purer motives , to a numberof charity schools , Wfcich hkiti been highly beneficial
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both to the nation and individuals . The legal provision , too , made by the parliament of Scotland , in 164 & for the establishment of a
school in every parish of that division of the island ( which excellent statute , after being repealed on the restoration of Charles the
Second was re-enacted in 1696 ) , * has produced the happiest effects , and contributed in no small de * gree to the eminence of our northern brethren in intellect and literature , in morals and devotion *
Still , through the influence of causes which tire found to be uniform and resistless , our population is on the increase ; and thousands of indigent children , par . ticularly in the manufacturing towns and districts of the
southern , part of the kingdom , were destitute of a knowledge of God and duty , of a Saviour ai > d a future state ; they seemed less rational than the machinery which many of them were employed in
directing , or the materials on which they laboured ; — 'till , about the year 1782 , a private citizen of Gloucester , impelled by the noblest benevolence , projected the scheme of Sunday Schools , This plan Mr . Raikes , long before his
death , had the satisfaction of seei ng realized in nearly every town and large village throughout England , and most of all in the places where it was most needed . The holy flame was soon caught : and the conductors of different
• Burns * tifc , &c by Curri * , V # L i . 4 , and ApPciuli *» No , I .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/9/
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