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to exist , the clergyman may stand in the way of a school altogether , or appoint an incompetent master , or fix the rate of quarter-pence so high as to make the school inaccessible to the very children that most want instruction ^ or introduce such vexatious rules
of management as will disgust and turn away the parishioners . But , however useless the new schools might be , they would have the certain effect of breaking up some of the schools that are now conducted on liberal principles with considerable success : these
institutions of : benevolence are supported with difficulty , and an education-tax would diminish voluntary subscriptions on their behalf , and the compulsory schools would draw off from them so many of the children as to make the cheap education of the remainder impossible .
Mr . Brougham ' s Bill contemplates only one sex In children . For the education of girls it makes no provision whatever . Yet if morality and religion be the objects of education , is it of no moment to train the characters
of those who , as mothers , have the greatest influence over the mind in the most ductile season ? If the care of girls may be remitted to individual benevolence , so , we conceive , might that of boys too , under such legislative encouragements and assistances as have been again and again pointed out . The spirit of Mr . Brougham ' s Bill
is , in our serious judgment , unworthy , not only of himself as a professedly liberal senator , but silso of the age in which he and we live . Even in France , under a Bourbon , an attempt to put education into the ecclesiastical
trammels , which Mr . Brougham holds to be wisest and best , has totally failed But the attempt was there made , not by any statesman of reputed comprehension of mind , but by the Catholic clergy . ( Defence , p . 35 . ) |
We can add only a word or two on the pamphlets whose titles stand at the head of these remarks . The Observations contain a series of calm but close reasonings : it is hardly possible
for a Dissenter to read them and not be convinced of the injurious tendency of the proposed Bill with regard to religious liberty . The Defence is from an equally able , if not from the same pen , and fully answers and exposes
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the Edinburgh Review , which , with memorable brevity of wisdom , decried in August Ia 6 t the very principle of education which in Mav of the same year it had highly extolled- A better advocate than this anonymous writer , the " British and Foreign School Society" cannot desire ; and we trust that whatever be the fate of Mr .
Brougham ' s Bill , the friends of universal education will , still more zealously support an institution which is opposed and vilified by a certain class of politicians in pretty equal
proportion to the sum of good which it is effecting throughout the world . The Brief Reply is not to be placed on a level with the foregoing pamphlets , but it has the merit of generous zeal for the interests of the human race , and
of disdain of sectarian prejudices and passions . It is in answer to a " Letter " full of the cry , ** The Church is in Danger . " The Letter-writer , " the Rev . Richard Lloyd , " is , to tise his own words , quoted toy Mr . Shepherd , ( p . 35 , ) one of those * ' honourable and worthy characters" who have " of late been led to look back with
complacency , and even wtth preference , to former days of ignorance and comparative simplicity : " and to such persons as this , Mr . Brougham would commit the work of popular education , at the same time accusing those that object to his selection of education-trustees ,
of turning their backs upon the agents expressly raised up for the office by Providence !
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Art . V . — The Christian Reflector , and Theological Inquirer . Vol . I . 8 vo . Ep . 256 . Liverpool , printed by F . . Wright : sold by D . Eaton , London . f ^ HIS work was published in cheap JL numbers and is still continued .
Its design is to furnish those that have not access to a variety of books with short expositions of Scripture and essays on Evangelical truth . The publication is accommodated in some measure to the local controversies in the
town of Liverpool , but the greater part of the contents is interesting to readers in general . The following melancholy anecdote , copied from an American Journal into the Traveller English newspaper , had escaped our notice :
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R ' eview . — The Christian Heflector . 116
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/51/
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