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Paid to instruct , or they oug , ht not to be paid at all , they have too commonly resisted instruction altogether , tfU resistance could no longer avail , and then endeavoured to pollute the instruction which they could not prevent . Libraries ,
schools , &c , have either been the objects of their decided hostility , or have been yet more endangered by their treacherous patronage . But the ^ day of their influence , which is the people ' s night * is wearing fast / away 5 and when its sun does set . it will rise no more .
The following extract , while it contains an honourable record of benevolent exertions , implies a u admonition to those who are similarly situated to go and do likewise : " Th . e merit and praise , however * of advancing the progress of improvement
among the artizans of Birmingham , principally belong to men whose days w re d « voted to business , and whose active employments left them but little leisure for other purposes ; but a part even of that leisure was cheerfully and jnerifcoriously appropriated to giving useful instruction to those who most wanted it .
Such were the men who employed every laudable means by which knowledge could be diffused among tire industrious a » nd enterprising inhabitants of Birmingham , and probably their exertions have contributed much towards the formation of their present general character . Though former events may indeed have
cast a gloomy shade upon its reputation , where is now the £ oavu in the British empire whose population is more conspicuous for sentiments and conduct accordant with the enlightened and liberal spirit of the age ? And where are the working classes more generally remarkable for their intelligence , information , and orderly conduct ?
" Birmingham may probably be ad * tluced as one of the most striking instances and strongest proofs of the civilizing and moral effects of education , that characterize modern times . Previous to the wide diffusion of knowledge among the working classes in the town aud its vicinity , whenever trade was so
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bad as to occasion a deficiency of employment , or provisions were at a high price , bakers , millers , feutjcjicrs , farmers , and others , because the objects of their hatred and vengeance , and often suffered considerably from the depredations committed upon them , by the injury or destruction of their property .
Happily , howewejr , the M $ u 3 » ce of education has obviated those very serious evils ; and such violations of justice and law , as indiscriminate plunder and riotous assemblages , do not now occur to disgrace the , population , Thpugh endued with feeling , they feave learned $ 0 reason , and consequently their actions are consonant with their improved condition .
** That the origin of the several plans for giving useful information to the artisans of Birmingham , belongs to Mr . James Luckcock , and a few of JiU associates in the town , is evident from tlje preceding detail . Thei ? labours in this great and good work have been unremitting for a v-ery long perja « l 9 and thousands can testify to their successful effects . They commenced * na ^ X years before Dr . Btrkoeck delivered liis
lectures to the mechanics at Glasgow , ^ nd of which the public did not hear ( ill nearly twenty years after they were ijqlivered . But as so much has recently been said and written about the origin and utility of Mechanics' Institutions , ought the great , useful ., and disinterested services of James Luckcock and Thomas
Carpenter and their associates , to p » $ s unregarded , when their exertions have been so remarkably meritorious ? ' % r-pp . 23—25 .
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Art . XVI . —Panorama of Switzerland as viewed from the Summit if Mont Right , by H . Keller z with a Circular View of the Country b y General Pfyffer , and Descriptive Notices . 24 s . coloured , J 2 * . plain . A very useful thing for those to take with them who travel ; and a rery beautiful thing for $ hose to look at who stay at home .
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Critica * Notices . —miscellaneous . 716
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1830, page 715, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2589/page/59/
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