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tm& point wbich " I would recommend to the serious consideration of our friends ; and , besides the advantages of this plan above-mentioned , I will add one more , namely , that it tends very powerfully to promote a general union
of feeling among us , inasmuch as to have been educated together is a very strong and lasting bond of attachment among men . I think this must also , on the whole , be the most economical plan , because the same tutors would be able to instruct a greater number of pupils .
If , then , this be decided , that we are to support one common academy , the next question is , what and where that one shall be ? I answer , that at present the College at York seems decidedly to claim this patronage : it is at present the only one among us , and it
is a very excellent institution , liberally supported and ably superintended . And I must confess , that I think those will not act wisely , though they will act with the best intentions , who encourage the design of a new and distinct academy . But while I am thus
an advocate for bending our whole strength to supporting the Institution now at York , I must take the liberty of suggesting what * I think would be a very important improvement with respect to that establishment . It is nothing less than that it should be removed into a more central and more
favourable situation : that is , I mean to recommend such a step to the consideration of the Trustees . Once already it has been moved , namely , from Manchester to York , and I suppose there is no absolute impediment to a
repetition of this measure . A most serious objection lies against York , from its being so very far to the north that it lies more in an extremity than in the middle of the country . Moreover , those who know the situation
will remember that it is very uninteresting in the midst of an immense plain , so that the slight risings around only just enable one to see the distant hills that bound it . It lies , too , quite exposed to the north-east wind , as it
comes from the northern ocean , and of course the climate is not very genial . Contemplating the future progress of our body , I cannot but think that it would be a wise , though aifluous , step , to remove this already flourishing Institution to ~ aunore central and favour-
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able situation . The ground and buildings * connected with the present AcadeiM'St ^ York , are not at all such as ^| W ** aJ * ° bj ect to retain them : ^ MflHKliink , if the favourers of such a
fflHnw I propose , would engage to pro $ fde ; ground and buildings on a handsdiiie and worthy scale , such as s-hcfttkl secure permanence and dignity , in a suitable situation , it might
probably seem good to the Trustees of the York College to promise , that on such reception being provided , they would transplant that Institution , and come and take possession of their new quarters . As to the situation which would
be most desirable , I would first say , that it cannot be Hackney , which is not only very far from central , but also involved in the overgrown and vicious metropolis . One of your correspondents [ p . 11 ] has named the neighbourhood of Birmingham , and he
rightly regards Warwickshire as about the centre of the population of the country . But the immediate vicinity of Birmingham I deem objectionable , both because there is nothing superior in the aspect of the country , and on account of the various evils of so vast
a manufacturing town . I have been at most of the principal towns in that neighbourhood , and I think , very decidedly , that there is none which combines so many advantages for our
purpose as Worcester . This city contains about fourteen thousand people ; it is a place of very good society , and allowed by most who have seen it to be one of the handsomest towns in
England . The situation is not only pleasant and healthful , but beautiful and frand . Washed by the noble river evern , it beholds rising , * at about six miles from it , the stately and diversified range of the Malvern hills , which swell at once to the height of fourteen hundred feet . Its immediate environs lie in the beautiful and luxuriant vale of
the Severn , while all around it , though not pressing upon it , are seen various handsome and lofty ranges of hills . It lies from London 110 miles , from Bristol 60 , from Manchester 97 ; and the more its advantages are considered , the more clearly , I think , will it be perceived , that it is the best situation tor our purpose that could be chosen . EUELPIS .
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514 . Suggestions as to an Unitarian College ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 514, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/10/
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