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    Taxes on Knowledge . —The coincidence of the revival oi jtiWS subject , ( which had been drifting towards oblivion , ) with v he reinstatement of the Melbourne ministry , is fortunate .. There is a pithy article upon it in the * Edinburgh Review / ascribed torjtti _ e pen of Lord Brougham ; by whom , also , a petition has beenpresented from a number of respectable and intelligent inhabitants of the city of London ,, and whose advocacy of the repeal of the stamp duties may , from these symptoms , in addition iq \ i \ b valuable evidence before a Committee of the House of Comn ^ oiis given just at the close of the last Session , be confidently

    anticipated . In other and less conspicuous quarters there exists a determination which renders the ultimate result certain , and fo y which it may , perhaps , be materially accelerated . It is npt p . subject on which any loud and general outcry is likel y iq he raised ; but it is one on which most intelligent and truly pat r ^ - x > tic persons feel strongly ; and a decided loss of character wa £ incurred by the Whig administration from the manner in wtiicji ( t was disposed of during their four years of office . T hfrvp

    uow an opportunity for retrieving themselves , the neglect , of whiipji will be most unpardonable . For obvious reasons the pre , sei > t daily press is cold or hostile towards the repeal ; but in the popular press , which would be created by the repeal , the agents of good gpvernment would find such a support as effectually to rais . e them above the machinations of interested faction .

    One most important portion of the good which would eventually be realized by the repeal of the duties is hinted at in tjie petition and in the article referred to , but it has scarcely yet been fully developed ; we mean the effect of cheap newspapers in advancing the general intelligence , and raising toe mental condition ot tjie most numerous class . 1 hey woulU poon become not pnljr the reporters of political and legal transactions , « fnd the of geinsi pjt

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    entertain for thaitfsuffering follow-countrypedple : thei farmed * d * 9 perhaps in the predicament of Currah ' s aunt , whom he dederibod as holding the petitions of the poor with one hand ,, wiping * her iyes with the other ^ and not having a third to put into her pocket $ trf course the objects of her commiseration went unrelieved . Printing , the great agent of the diffusion of knowledge , has truly been the poor man ' s friend ; it has come on like a

    steamvessel , running down all the petty craft that opposed its way But there is a power greater than this , of which this is only one of the engines ; that power is education . Education is the only equalizer : as far as human kind can be equalized ^ that will' do it . It is a universal interest—let it be a universal aim M . LG . .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/55/