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enemies ; you have been bad masters , and therefore we will save you from yourselves . ' It was a position for the state to assume towards the church as obvious as it was commanding . The enunciation of the principle would have advanced not only
education and civilisation , but piety and religion a hundred years : as applied to Ireland the principle would have been so manifestl y just and useful , that a large portion of the church , a larger portion of the dissenters , and the great body of the people , would have hailed the measure . On the other hand , that cowardly measure , on which Lord Althorp congratulated himself as having established no principle , —that cowardly measure which
sanetioned confiscation without attaining justice , gave the church an opportunity of resorting to her old tactics , exposed the dissenters to the danger of committing their old error , and caused the weakness and prejudices of the people to be played upon by the old cries , religion is attacked ! the church is in danger !
, That your petitioner cannot admit the plea , that a Whig Ministry' did not dare to hazard so bold a measure . ' That the Whigs had sufficient courage to hazard a bold measure , when they individually were to gain by it , witness the Reform Bill ; that the Whigs had sufficient courage to hazard a bold measure ,
when they individually were not to lose by it , witness the emancipation of the slaves . The very point of which y our petitioner complains is , that when a measure of great benefit to the community is not to be paid for altogether by English Tories or West Indian slave-owners , but is to be partly at the expense of Whigs , ( such are the great questions of the Com Laws , the Septennary Bill , and Church Reform , ) then the Whigs become attached to a cautious policy , and are very tender of vested interests .
That your petitioner prays for such an union between church and state as may , without robbing any clergyman of his daily bread , or depriving the state of a great means of promotin g and diffusing , of establishing and advancing , what is good , cease to outrage the sincerity of individual ministers and to insult the opinions of large bodies of pious and religious men . That entertaining this hope , your petitioner is still unwilling to pray for that extreme measure , which yet , and that at no distant time , if sincerity and justice cannot be otherwise obtained , will be demanded by the great body of the people .
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MRS . AUSTIN'S TRANSLATION OF M . COUSIN'S REPORT ON THE "STATE OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN PRUSSIA .
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In a recent number we briefly announced the appearance of this important document in an English form . We now return to it , because the reception of Mr . Roebuck ' s motion by the House * Effingham Wilton .
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502 Reform in Education .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/42/
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