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Some Account of Education in South America ; in a Letter just received from Joseph Lancaster . [ Communicated by the Gentleman to whom it was addressed . !
Franciscan Monastery , Caracas , 29 th ofSih Monti , 1826 . Respected Friend , FTHHINKING that my kind friend JL who commenced his friendly aid m the earliest part of my career , who continued his friendship till I had
discharged every duty , and nothing left hut to depart and sigh over the ingratitude of my native land , and who , I find , has not forgotten me since , will be glad to receive a letter from me under happier circumstances from this new world , I venture to send him
these lines with nay kindest remembrances and my most grateful and affectionate respects . To this I must $ dd some other information . My journeys in North America were not like those in England . The cause did not make much progress because I had no Bell to contend with . In En .
gland you have had too much belU metal ; it is pity but you could cut off a fraction from some of your enormous church bells and send them to America \ the power of friction might then give a polish , and a polish to some purpose . The North
Americans know no aristocracy but wealth , and they worship that with a witness . Thou wilt readily believe me also , that with all the excellency which I
have found among them , and cei % tainly some of the first characters in the world , nature ' s own princes , are to be found in North America ; yet it is natural the mass of the people should have as much selfishness aa
any other nation on earth . The greatest enemies of the Lancastrian system in America are the old schoolmasters , and I have often said there that I found the school-serpents more subtle than all the beasts of the field Ce ^ cept a few in the British and Foreign School Society ) . But I must now leave North America for South .
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598 Some Account of Education in South America , by Joseph Lancaster
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Viscount Ma # sfteld met on Good-Friday in running at tilt , says , * Should not tins day have other employment V How he would have had the Sunday employed we have already shewn . "
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I had two years' illness ; and consequently , having no income but what was dependent upon my own indus - try in lecturing or keeping school , I naturally suffered greatly , perhaps as much as 1 did in England by the kindness of ¦ and the humanity it T 1 J ¦ ¦ b
pf I y no means charge this on the American nation . Baltimore is a city full of narrow Roman Catholics , and equally narrow sectarians ; it is a city full of alleys and narrow courts , and in them the people lock up their hearts , with a few exceptions , and in these alleys their
souls live ; they are a commixture of the refuse of all nations of the globe ; they look fair to the eye , but aftelr all this enticement to the view , the raan whq establishes a school there might as well set up a school in a graveyard , frequented only at particular times , and solitary ait all others . Every
good institution reared in Baltimore , unless kept alive by a British interest , is born only to die a rapid and unnatural death , and what the whim does not kill , the climate destroys ;
as was my case * An Englishman complains of rain and shivers at the cold ; but the climate of England is us heaven to earth compared with the extremes , summer ' s heat and winter ' s
cold , of North America . I presume thou art by this time well acquainted with ray plans and prospects here ; yet I am only now forming out the nucleus of a great and extensive work which will leave
the exertions of my past life at distance . It has ever been nay lot to go on the forloru hope of humanity , and after I have opened the way , others who had been previously idle were found stepping to rob me of my reward and strip me of my honour
But duty calls ; the cause of suffering humanity is still near and dear to noy heart j the voice of the fatherless and the uninstrucled plead ; and I take pay post on the vangutf * S for their help . Perhaps before this reaches thee I shall be personally comp leting
my arrangements with Bolivar m person for promoting the ed ucation of the youth of all South Ame rica , to which in outline I have already ws highest and most decided approbation . He is expected from one tortni tf ht to one month in Caracas . & e will not make a long stay here ; W
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 598, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/26/
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