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Such is the system ' s object , never confessed , embellished by occasional triumphs , a feather in the cap , a paltry fanfaronnade . The principle is fed most plenteously : all its efforts , its plans , attractions , displays , are for the constant nutriment of that evil to which they say man is naturally prone , originally and inescapably born . At all events if they do not find it there , they take wondrous pains to place it and plant it , so that there shall be no danger of its not growing up . Yes ,, their doctrine inculcates the theory and practice of selfishness , and during the whole course of instruction , every da , y they drawl out some verbiage about * loving your neighbour as yourself . ' ' If thy brother offend thee
seventy times seven , forgive him , ' &c , the inevitable consequence of which must be , ( for I can conceive no other result—true , I do not look through their spectacles , ) a laugh at these precepts of love and forgiveness . No , no , the pupils never laugh , unless it be in their sleeve ; they quote the passages , and retalk them over again , to show that they are not infidels , and continue in their practice of selfishness , of loving themselves most devotedly too , wallowing in their own pool from which all their business and folly overbubbles , till it accumulates a stream on which they sail with undeviating steadiness . Perhaps the teachers adopt their process , this o v erlaying of white with thick and substantial brick colour , in order to prove their doctrine of innate vice , fearing that nature and a different system might exhibit their doctrine ' s fallacy . Oh , the blessed system of education ! War with man is the business of instruction , and 1 will engage to buy up all the boasted friendship which grows out of school companionship , at two-pence per head . Note ye , on condition that it passes the examination of a keeneyed inspector . It is but a suspension of hostilities , a mutual consent to be civil .
What vagrancy of thought is this , reader ! Let me return to my sleepless lying down , to wait , till the clock struck three . I then rose , crept softly down stairs ; as people not wishing to be heard going down stairs usually do , I suppose . I never heard the stairs creak so much before , and the carpet-wires rattled louder than was their wont . I knew the spot on which the box of keys was deposited , picked out the great one from the jingling many , passed through the rooms and doors out into the air , opened the large portal , and was in the street . Here I encountered the watchman of the premises , Dick Harris , who , night-capped and halted , and unsuspicious , looking at me , said , * You are up this morning very early , Pel . ' * Yes , Hie hard , I am going to take a long walk , ' 1 replied , with that perfect coolness to which I am an entire stranger when not in extreme peril : at such times 1 am steady nerved
ledge is power / and fenr the domination will » lip through thi'ir fingers if information be extended . Their ? ituperation of the instruction , which is rupidly advancing among , all mult * , ii dictated by a dread that the barriers of oxclunivviWM will I * broken down .
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534 Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1833, page 534, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2620/page/22/
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