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    be shown that by its parents , or private teachers employed by them , the child was efficiently instructed . 4 . Universities for youth in all large towns , open to both sexes , and in the hours of attendance , and other arrangements ., regard had to the convenience of those whose time is occupied in their needful avocations .

    5 . Colleges for the cultivation of the higher branches of learning , and for producing a succession of professors and teachers ( not to the exclusion of those who should otherwise qualify themselves ) to superintend the various establishments above described . 6 . Assistance in the formation of museums , libraries , exhibitions , scientific institutions , theatres , and similar means for promoting adult instruction , and the popular cultivation of sound knowledge and refined taste .

    7 . Public provision for the support of men of learning , genius , or science , who engage in literary or artistical undertakings , which although unproductive of pecuniary profit to themselves , or to a very meagre extent , are yet of great moment to the instruction , happiness , and progress of society . Of the various appointments involved in this scheme , those of

    the masters of schools should be made directly by the inhabitants of the district , or with only the intervention of a committee , according to the project of Mr . Roebuck in his masterly speech on national education . In the professorships , a more careful filtering might be necessary in order to secure competent judges of the qualifications of candidates , but still popular influence should pefvade the whole ; this would be essential to its vitality .

    We believe that for this magnificent apparatus of public utility and national instruction , for this plan of spiritual culture of the entire population , the funds assigned to that end by our forefathers would be amply sufficient . No taxation would be necessary . Nay , there would be the remission of all that taxation which is now levied on the members of many sects for the benefit of one sect Deducting Easter dues and offerings , church rates ,

    and similar impositions , the national instruction fund , now in the possession of the great ecclesiastical corporation , has been shown by Mr . Wade , one of the most diligent and accurate of calculators , to be probably undervalued at eight millions sterling per annum . Now much may be done with eight millions sterling ! And when it is borne in mind that the colleges , universities ,

    institutes , &c . might , while necessary , support themselves by the voluntary payments of students ; that the chief cost would be of the district schools ; and that the plan would come gradually into operation as the incumbents died off , so that there would be a lively interest in its progress and the excitement of public exertion for its promotion ; there can be no reasonable doubt , without going into detailed calculations , that the resources would be abundant .

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    812 Church Reform .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 812, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/8/