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• Cards of admittance to be given every six weeks , numbered progressively , till the highest Bible class in the school have passed their final examination . The first degree must then be conferred . The first degree to be conferred by diploma on every one holding the same number of admittance tickets . The second degree to be conferred when the second Bible class
have passed their final examination . * Every attendant in these schools on whom the first degree has been conferred , will have a stake in society ; he will have a moral and religious character in the world . ' By means of this system , and these schools , a new species of property will be established in the country . ' By means of this system , a value may be put on every person ' s character . '
Looking to the extraordinary effects that must be produced by the system and its diplomas , he predicts that in fourteen years , * The present rising generation will have arrived at the period of manhood , and many perhaps will have been honoured with a dozen or more diplomas of inestimable value / Again and again does our great illuminator revert to the Corinthian capitals of his temple .
4 Lastly , a few words with regard to the encouragement this system may justly expect from the Higher classes ; they are noblemen and gentlemen of the highest intellectual attainments—they patronize every society which has for its object , sound morality and true religion . Can it then , for a moment be supposed they will let fall to the ground , a method of instruction , the only one which promises to be of extensive and even general utility ? let us conclude they will not , &c . ' Had we space , we should quote the whole of this paragraph , which is particularly rich . Thus energetically concludes this matchless work : —
* And lastly . By means of this system , and by this alone , in fourteen years , according to all human probability , the immoral habits of the people will have gradually changed , and comparative holiness have sprung up in their place / N . B . A public placard announces that the nation will save twenty millions per annum by this scheme , which must at once decide this money-loving nation . Mr , Hume must feel bound to bring it forward in Parliament , and thenceforward it must form a standing item in the budget .
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489 Nmii&nal Immorality Cured .
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A foreign fiddler , when endootrinatipg an English nobleman , encouraged him with the assurance that there were three stages in fiddle-play ing—fiddle not at all—fiddle very bad—fiddle very well , and that his Lordship had made great proficiency , having attained the stage of fiddle very bad . And we are like the fiddler
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/40/
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