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    change of institutions is that of facilities , created or extended , for bettering their condition . Institutions afford such facilities in proportion to their freedom . And the bettering of their condition is only a good in proportion ( physical support being first secured ) to the degree in which it promotes enjoyment , by refining mind and manners , taste and character . Herein is the

    teal elevation . To this end should we ever look , through all the struggles of reform ,, and the researches of political economy . In the one , we seek the opportunity , in the other the skill , for raising to a better state the great mass of humanity . In our

    own country especially , the great obstacle to national instruction is that Establishment which , reconstructed , might become its nonexpensive and most efficient machinery . And generally , the ruins of Bastiles , temporal and spiritual , are the material for building the temples of art and science , truth and happiness .

    In spite , then , of many difficulties , and some appearances , we see the elements of progression at work . The rainbow is bright in the sky , though the storm is pelting hardly on many a hovel in the valley . A more ample recognition of right , and a more righteous distribution of wealth , are before us ; and we are surely advancing towards them . So long as public spirit is living , and public intelligence is growing , all is right . Let Tories rage , and Radicals blunder , and Whigs compromise , and Courts deceive , * Nought shall make us rue If England to herself do rest but true . '

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    THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AMONGST THE PEOPLE ;

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    The Diffusion of Knowledge amongst the People . * t

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    Two Lectures , read at the Mechanics * Institution , in 1838 , by the Writer of Daily Bread , ' and Deliverance from Evil .

    « This only is the magic I have used . '—Shakspeare .

    The fact , that one of my most valued friends is at this time engaged in establishing a Mechanics' Institute in the small country town of Marlborough , in Wiltshire , has led me to think a good deal * on the best means of communicating knowledge to such audiences , more especially , as may be found in small country towns . On mentioning to a person , less sanguine than myself , the attempt my friend is making to establish a Mechanics' Institute at Marlborough , he immediately asked , * Is he likely to succeed in so small a place V my answer was , ' Certainly not , if he attempt * I must "beg to remind the reader , that this ' 10 a Lecture , and not an Eisay ; 1 . e , that a large part of it was writtea for speaking , and not for reading .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/7/