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The ; introduction of cateckiam& into scUov > k which ought to be open , and profess t € * jbe open to a > ll * , ^ sawing the seeds of aaimosity a « d disconi in the breasts of the young * Exem ^ iOn from the religious learning of these establishments is a distinction . The
rule and the exception both tend to divide children into the orthodox cold the heterodox , the favoured many and the tolerated but despised few- It had been fondly thought , that the champions of the Laneasteri&n Schools and
Mr . Brougham , the most eminent of that class of public benefactors , had for ever settled this point , and proved not only by argument but also by experiment , that religion and civil learning may be conveniently and use * fully separated , each prospering the more for being unfettered by th 6 oihef **
* Mr . Brougham ^ pa rliamentary schools , if indeed he succeed in establishing them , will not be " schools for all . " Thete will be no form in them for the children of Jews . Few Roman Catholics will suffer their children to be taught religion by a Protestant parish-clerk out of the " authorized version" of the Scriptures * A » d , we believe , for the reasons that we have assigned , that the bulk ot the
Protestant Dissenters will refuse ta put their offspring under training for the Church of England . As far as their influence extends , they will resist the institution of schools , which they know to be designed to buttress up an Establishment which they cannot as Christians approve .
The Quakers , and somes other sects , will feel themselves peculiarly bound to oppose the operation of a system which recognizes the spiritual character of the members of the English hierarchy . But , at the satne tfrne , they cannot hope that then * opposition wHtifl many p&rtefies be successful , and where it is riot , the parliamentary school wiH effectually repress all others , and thu £ the Dissenters will
be in almost as hopeless & situation as that i « which they would hfitre been under the memorabte " Schism Bilk " The Edinburgh Review , laying claim notwithstanding to the utmost candour aud even friendliness { Wards Dissent , speaks of the opponents of Mr . Brougham ' s
Bui in no verjr gentle or conciliating terms . These persons express their ap » - prehensteiis strtfhglv . art ]* theyeibre they am itttVrtip&rmt * . Tht ^ r WifcK io arouse ttieii' bvfetKfeti to timif opposif ion to an injurious measure , and tltetfelbfe Iftfcy are *• agitates ; " iPtoeir votee is itot agree-
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in those few rema * kB U {> on the Bill v t katfe been actuated by no hostility to the clktgy , who are so unaccountably able to the ears of some h&l £ rctase « peti tical specolatists , a&A t&erefoi *^ £% . hi 41 clamour . ^ With so poirerral an ant&
gonist aft the KdinbUrgfi Review it nwht seem , pfesuniptuous to wr ^ tle ; but fit is fkh- to niatcli oiie Of this fbrrittdabfe crwps of r ^ vtewefS wit h atiotli ^ ir :, atttf , ndtttfrig more tieed bi > shiid fn att ^ Wet tt ^ &i& mttiu argument ( so ffer aa ft affeeM tte fife- " semers ) of No . LXVII ., thai \ the foQo ing passage from No . XXXIII .: '
* ' The real motive of the opposition which has been attempted fe ^» Mr . ha&e&& ter , is * we will venture to fifay , % too ffieatJH the fear of iuiklelity , but of dissent \ md it is truly pitiaMe to see D * . E& £ hhn $ &f among the first h * fttrnisM ^ g us with , proofs of this assertion . He k $ & . fax
scrupled , indeed , to imimtote , in fito > fast publiemtiGto , fik 317 , ) tAnt th * imttuetion of youth should be committed tfr the paro chial clergy ; and that scft&&lrmste * # shotriti § e licensed by the bishop . After stating that such is the law , ( which it is m § , } he suggests , that little more remains t * y be
done , than * to give it consistency , ubifbrmky and stability * ( that is to say , to repeal the existing statutes ); add he adds , that ' it may sudice for the present , to begin with putting Sunday-schools for the poor under existing and appropriate Authorities . '
" We certainly do not quote this for the purpose of enteling into a legal argument with the Reverend author . We do not mean Jto take the ttfGubfe of remind * ing hiiii ) that all manner of toleration has now , for above thirty years * been the
right of Dissenting teachers by statute , as it always was in sound policy and natural justice . Nor d © we irrtend to upbraid him with referring , for the rights of the Church , to obsolete canons , which denounce a series of ex ^ omtnunieainotis
against persons guilty of omissions , hftbitual to almost f » very British subject , of whatevtl refigiouq denoi « iimtiotn . But we state the substance of Dr . BeH ' tf Suggestion , for the sake of recoidittg the factt , that- there e ^ ist certain perd&nd , whose almost avowed design ^ are hostile to toleration , who are prepaying the
minds of the-people' for attempts to &tt < md the pvivevs of the hierarchy 9 wfro > not content with seeing the Established Gburch in possession f v ^ e tliitnk God ; hi undisturbed , u » di » J ) Wted , uneiivled | W ^ - sesdktei ) of the pdvileg-es so conducive 16 the temporal a& weJSk m spiritofeil ^ rfelfare of the feainv WrtuM madly seiek W e ^ Cewd herpoweir , ' aiid leescn het * seeiirUy ; to
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The NotebnjWmis& , N © - XIX . 31
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1821, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2496/page/31/
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