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Universal Instruction ; instruction by the press ; instruction by schools and institutes ; instruction of all useful kinds , and for all ranks and ages . Our ecclesiastical apparatus should be made of some use for this good end . No church reform will be worth anything , that does not direct some of its power to this purpose . The old school endowments , probably sufficient in themselves to
provide for the education of the community , should be rescued from the shameless perversions and abuses which have made most of them sinecures , and be rendered available for their proper objects : for the objects of the donors , that is , interpreted , as the legislature has a right to interpret them , in conformity with the
increased intelligence of the age . Reading rooms ,, libraries , lectures , should be multiplied throughout the country ; and we must also , by discussion and rational experiment , endeavour to mitigate that individual competition which so largely wastes the energy and vitiates the feelings of society . It is not to be endured that the millions should continue the ceaseless toil , or the fierce
rivalries , by which now they win their bread . Whenever the multitude obtain that political power which it must obtain , there will be wild and destructive schemes for the reduction of this evil , unless a true and safe way first approve itself to the public mind . That there is such a way , who can doubt ? But speculation upon it is useless , until further progress in political and intellectual reform have better prepared us for such investigations .
There is much amusing and interesting matter in these volumes , on other topics , besides those to which we have adverted . Nor can we omit particularly to recommend to the reader ' s attention , the two very able dissertations on the philosophy of Bentham and of Mill . And while we generally go along with Mr . Bulwer in his view of the aristocracy , we must yet say in conclusion , that we cannot altogether agree with the broad distinction , even to
opposition , which he sets up between the aristocracy on the one hand and the monarchy and established church on the other . There is an affinity between the three institutions , and they have a mutual tendency to generate one another , and to become one another ' s instruments . Whatever of good may be claimed for each , each has its separate , as well as its conjoint , tendency to evil . That of aristocracy undoubtedly is by far the most formidable and
pernicious . The habits , opinions , and circumstances of our countrymen will probably ensure a continuance of ( he forms of all for a considerable time ; the title of king will most likely survive all other titles ; but , ultimately , the tendencies of things point to the period when Mr . Bulwer ' s contingent prophecy shall become a true vision , and we shall * perceive , slowly sweeping over the troubled mirror of the time , the giant shadow of the coming republic *
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Characteristics of English Aristocracy . 601
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No . 81 . 2 U
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1833, page 601, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2622/page/17/
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