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the huge ill-fitting shoe , thus retaining the foot in a portable bath , though the doctors have an axiom about a * cool head and warm feet . ' There is probably a good reason which might be alleged by the trustees of the charity in behalf of keeping up a strict attention to externals , in compliance with the founder's will ; for were they to break through the custom , it might provoke some inquiry into the abuses which have
taken place in the disposal oi the funds for the end of private profit . Oh ! that a responsible government would take all corporation and charity funds under a general system of rational management , and remove the degrading badges of charity , which exercise an evil influence upon all those who have unfortunately been doomed to wear them , which influence frequently lasts a whole life . How so , father ?
The brandmark of the slave is upon the child of charity , pressed daily deeper and deeper by the coarse-minded and vulgar of both high and low classes . The iron enters into his soul with the names of derision he is addressed by , and the result is , that he becomes either a crouching menial or a fierce malecontent . The high and ennobling feelings of erect independence , and the humanizing influences of beneficence , are alike unknown to him , save in casual instances . Look
around on those boys ; many of them are , it is true , helots in mind and body , only capable of thriving under the direction of those who are more skilful than themselves : but there are others whose physical organization is of the most perfect kind , in whom proper training would develope faculties which might make them the benefactors of their species . It is a vile thing that they should be thus wasted , while
abundant means exist for producing exceeding happiness to themselves arid those around them . And shall this most iniquitous degradation of human beings be suffered to continue ? No , no ! We will make unto ourselves tongues of flame , and words of fire , to call forth the justice which lies buried in sloth . We will seek to procure for every child of man an equal chance for instruction according to his faculties , whether he be the child of a peer or of a peasant ; whether he be a
king ' s son or a mechanic ' s orphan ; we will save the first from inflicting misery , and the last from the necessity of enduring it . Who shall gay that in that very line of children there might not be found Lockes , and Miltons , and Benthams , and Cuviers , and La Places , and Goethes , were they but placed in the same set of circumstances which drew forth the intellects of those benefactors of their species . But let us on , boy ! Thou at least hast been saved from the degradation which awaits so many of thy fellows , perchance as capable as thyself . Sept . 2 , 1833 . Junius Redivivus . To be continued .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1833, page 690, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2624/page/30/
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