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It ia very trua that vicious institutions act tipon the people , but now let the people turn round and act on the iuatitutioniu L « t the rapidly-augmenting numbers of enlightened mechanics , the heart-Bead-and-h and men , come to the rescue of the rest . Let them atand as the bulwark of their important class , and turn back the rtfsreant members who would desert its standard ; let them snatch
their little children from the contagion of evil example and the branding-iron of crime-producing ignorance ; let those children ' s * not speaking * speak for them ; ' let their mute eloquence plead now for themselves , that when their voices awaken they may be Able to plead to man for man , and tell him to bid the school , th # cdllegfc , and place of social and improving congregation rise > where now the gaol > the gin palace , and the pawnbroker ' s , blast the
scene . Service rendered to society ought alone to give estimation in society , and purchase recompense from it . This fact once recog * trised , we should bring the aKe down upon the heads of the hereditary hydra ; it would in vain lift its many hands , ( which , though they grasped sinecures , are no sinecuriste , for they have much to grasp , ) and the pocket and pedigree qualifications would partake the monster ' s annihilation .
Universal education will make power , like water , find its level ; it Will never rise so high in any as to overwhelm common happiness , nor fall so low as to strand it . Education , the grand lever of humanity , must not be applied to the infant only , but to the adult also—not to men merely , but to women as well . Let those who ask for it , have it , and to those who cannot or will not ask , let it be given .
The history of human progress teems with proof that the most important results have originated in the simplest causes ; let us not , then , neglect the humblest babe that breathes . Wisdom bide us waste notning—least of all let us waste human power . By what process does an acorn become an oak ? and how , without planting and cultivating the moral germ , can the human being become the agent of human happiness ? There is a mighty evil to be met , and a mighty good to be called forth , as regards women of all classes ; but more especially in the highest and lowest classes , as they are called , because it is in those classes that mis-cultivation and non-cultivation are most everting their destructive influences . In the first , if there be not elevation , there is at least levity , and advice is , I fear , of too dense
a character to be admitted to such an atmosphere . The best hope I entertain for that class is , that some strong-minded woman will rise among them and make it fashionable to have good sense and right feeling . There is more hope for the humble , even tfre Vfry humbly ; nature is among them smothered by ignorance , not by art ; it is the character of the former to yield to the light of intelligence ; of the latter , to elude it . If , therefore , the light of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 494, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/58/
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