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cities mor * gay than , o ** own ; thither otlr . courtly patrtnvc ^ f t £ M # may with facility transport thinna-elves and fix theit ab <^ i i tfefete are ofher ports than London and Liverpool ; the English cawtofi&t has a right to do what he will with his own ; he is riot nec 4 * sii * tad to watch his hoard on the hanks of the Thames ; there are million * of fertile acres beyond the four seas ; English farmers are nfct compelled to cater to us from the fields of their fathers ; tfriy
may leave us ; were they to do so , their leaving might show like virtue ; it mi ght be charity in despair . But while they stay hfere , Englishmen mmong Englishmen , let them not despair , but be doing . It needs not so great an outlay as may appear implied in the different benefits which are to result from national
education ; that is to say , morality , taste , and the practice of manly exercises , together with correct information on all topics thAt concern citizens of all degrees . Taste is expensive . What furnishes an orchestra or a cabinet
of virtu is necessarily costly ; but Goldsmith ' s ' Deserted Village * records tasteful refinements , precious though unpurchased . Lbok on an infant sleeping ; its little fingers and composed feature * peering from the coverlid . The cottager may gaze on the truth , surpassing sculpture ' s fairest creations ; ay , on the pillow of his cradled child . All the gorgeous effects' of sunrise and sunset 9
are his , without the necessity of an introduction to ' atelieror 4 exhibition . ' There is sweet music in the voices of children , aj you will confess if you hear by the hedgerow the human chirrup flung to companion of their games , a brother cherry-cheek or a pet dog . Manly exercises among the labouring class are implied in thelt vocation ; the only matter to be amended here is , that the nrnftim
should be observed * the labourer is worthy of his hire ; ' in other word * , it is the duty of the patrons of the poor to see that th * lr health is sustained under the daily trials of their corporal powers . * The morality of the labouring classes occupies a peculiar position . They are a brotherhood , of which the members cannot
compete with each other in appropriating wealth ; they ar # , ait have been , as a material enhancing the value of the soil they labour upon , and not a party to contracts affecting those Valuei , One result is an absence of jealousy , and envy one of the other 1 the memory of our schoolboy days will take us to the condition
of society among the villagers ; a neighbour ' s smile is retimed without fathoming its motive , a laugh at his expense is made to his face , being generally levelled at gautherie—but why enumerate particulars ? we all have been schoolboys . How is education , in this s 6 nse , to be conducted into our MU
lages , or what remains there if the simple elements of vftlAtfe tast # J . • • - ' ¦ ¦ * . »> ? * ¦ : ; ;> ., J , + Up 4 BaeoB , in hit tmy' Peditfon , tayt . ' A strait hand should bf kffit MJWft ihf detotlribg tmdesof utury , engroMiifj ; , grant pastoral , and &T 2 W * . ' TW ¦ ftp n ? t tfcfok frit * ADJ dm if wt would diitct our thoughW i « aily to the T * mmmti * k + the poor .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 679, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/51/
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