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divisions ? That religions establishments naturally foster such a spirit is one grand evil inseparably connected With them . " ~ f > . 13 . [ To be continued . ]
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Art . II . Observations on Mr . Brougham ? s &ill 9 fyc , shewing its Inadequacy to the End proposed , and the £ > ttng 6 r which will arise frotn it to the Cause of Religious Liberty . 8 vo . pp . 32 . Baldwin and Co .
Art . III . —A Defence of the British and Foreign School Society , against the Remarks in the Sixtij-Sevehth Numbet of the Edinburgh ftevieuf . 8 vo . pp . 48 . Hatchard ami Son . Art . IV . —A Brief Reply to the Rev Richard Lloyd ' s " Lcttet to a
Member of Parliament , on the Dati gerous Defects of the British and Foreign Schools . By James Shepherd , Treasurer to the City of London Royal British School . Svo . pp . 76 . Highley attd Son .
MR . BROUGHAM has given notice that he means to bring forward his Education Bill , and he will present it , we fear , with little or no modification . Convinced that the project is openly hostile to religious liberty , and that it would eventually be a hindrance rather than a help to general education , we deem it right to endeavour to awaken the attention of our
readers to the measure , and to call upon them to resist it by every constitutional method . " The Nonconformist" ( see pp . 25 —33 of the last Number ) has left us little to say on the threatening aspect of the Bill with regard to religious liberty . This , certainly , is our first objection . We know of no
advantages scarcely , that we could allow ourselves to purchase by the sacrifice * of the least portion of freedom of conscience . The national clergy are very much dependant on the ^ mittistfratfion fotf
the time being , and uAsty therefore have , or think that they have , interests distinct from those of the people ; fo * which re&aon it behwds us to look with jealousy upon aay increase of theiv
power . Mr . Brotfgham proposes to give them power vvithout resporlaibinty , a&d the sensible' atrthor of the first of these pamphlets supposes si vol
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case df of >] pfessK ) n in one < tf the projected schools in wfaicfc f&ere would be no possibility of tedtem : the humble parent of the child aggrieve *} might
appeal ffom the parfah-priest to the ordinary , but if the orcfeiary should listen to the tale of the Jmest rather than to that of the poo * fihan , the grievance must remain , ( Obsei * v . pp .
20—22 . ) It is unpleasant to indulge suspicions with regard to any body df tfnen , but the past conduct of the clergy justifies the fear that with more power they would not shew less bigotry . The author of the pamphlet last quoted informs us .
"In a populous parish in London , an attempt was lately made to withhold parochial relief from a family because the children attended the British and not the National School ; and in a large village near the metropolis , where the clergyman is the magistrate , the poor have been threatened with similar privations for
this offence . Not long since , several boys were actually dismissed from a Na ^ tional School , because the parents , after taking them to attend the regular worship of the Established Church on the Sunday , sent their children in the evening to a Dissenting meeting-house . "—P . 19 .
There are two points of view in which the Dissenters may contemplate the probable operation of the new scheme of education ; in reference first to their own community , and next to the mass of the population .
With regard to themselves , the Dissenters say truly , that the Bill is unnecessary ; their poor are not uneducated ; in their religious econoniy , a meetinghouse and a school are generally connected . In the majority of their larger congregations , there are establishments ' for dafiy education , and in many of
these there is provision for clothing the poor children . Few of them are without Sunday-schools , and , since the introduction of the new system of teaching , the improvement made by childreii in these schools is so great aa to come up to the full idea heretofore entertained of common education . A
considerable proportion of the children in these Dissenting schools are of Church - of - England parents . Thus providing ^ fb * tfieir own Watits , and , ifc some degirde , for those of others , the Dissenters are * surety entitled to com-
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Riview . ' ^ Mr , Broughams Education Bill . 113
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/49/
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