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characteristic harangue , but as far as the idea goes , it suggested to me that the general character of man , as modified by present education and manners , is not very unlike that of * Little Jack Homer Who sat in the corner
Eating a Christmas pie , He put in his thumbs And pull'd out the plums And cried ' What a good boy am ////' From what source he derives this most amazing fund of selfcomplacency for pulling out the plums for himself , it would be
very difficult , upon any modern principle of sociality or philanthropy , to define . However , if I may be allowed to compare knowledge to anything so homely as a plum-pie , Jack Horner ' s plan is precisely that on which man has acted with regard to knowledge . The practice is about as wise and as worthy as
would be the domestic arrangements of a man who should let the physical sustainment of his family depend upon seeing him eat . Much greater advance must we make to an acquaintance with the doctrine of sympathy , ere even a Falstaff of a lather would have , by such means , any other than a most lean lachrymal family .
* It is , ' says the u Journal of Education , " ( No . 15 , p . 26 , ) c a principle which cannot be too often repeated , that the foundation for a wellordered society is the moral and intellectual culture given to all the members who compose it . ' I must ail my life have been under a mistake as to the meaning of the word ' all . It is impossible that it can desig nate ' the whole number ; every body / as the dictionary gives it ; and while I have fondly imagined that it meant the total , it must in
fact only mean a moiety ; for in what plan of education , public , private , or national , is female education even glanced at as a national or universal interest ? Oh , no ; feed the boys , and the girls will grow fat , is the principle upon which mental nourishment is purveyed ; when it is brought to bear , as it is to be hoped it will , on physical nourishment , what a delightful thing it will be in this politico-economic age ; for
• Very good meat is cent , per cent . Dearer than very good argument . ' A writer * in the last number of the journal already quoted
says , * The great end of education is to fit woman to be the companion of a man of sense and information . ' In the same article , the judicious acquirement of the accomplishments is recommended as being ' another link in the chain which binds men to their hearths . *
* I will take this opportunity of entering a protest against the adop tion of the word ' female * for woman . It is a very common offence ; and decidedly as ungraceful as it is incorrect . The word applies to all animals of the sex , and can onljr be properly used as a general term .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 772, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/26/
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