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< U * i » &r - it is nfrt * state of rest j another g # neratk « y perhaps a * otb * r year , will drag on events to their dreadful crisis . The incendiaries of the rickyard are anomalous Englishmen , as we have been accustomed to consider our countrymen ; but I have a fearful misgiving , a doubt I would turn to disbelief , but which I must still entertain . I observed that among the married men in
the village , who had been in the married state one , two , three , four , and five years respectively , said who were the ablest hands at work and play , and knowing beyond their fcllowsr—* that these were generally childless . I have travelled in Wales : the poor classes go barefooted and have no glazed windows , yet they are well fed and contented ; the young men are fathers at eighteen , and at thirty they have a house full of their lively children and wear the gravity of
patriarchs , and are looked up to as village senators . Early marriages are not restrained , but in Wales a little neighbourly assistance crowns the wedding-day with prospective comfort , and fills the cottage with unpurchased household gear . English neighbours pay their own rent and their contribution to the malttax , but can contribute te each other ' s comforts only the memory of better times and despair for the fiiture . I have no doubt where
should be laid the first stone of national education , or of the regeneration of English taste , morals , manual dexterity , and mental activity . It is hoped that the foregoing remarks and examples will not be considered as put forth here in a spirit of carping at those who have not an opportunity of answering . No , the dilemma of poverty must not be solved by that heroic response , * Qu HI m&urt . The labourer ' s 'ilfaut vwre * is not to be met as that knave who
used it to a witty king of France , and was answered ' J $ n ' &n sui * pa * s&re . That they whose labour feeds and clothes all the community should be the only class to starve , is a most preposterous convention of modern society . The castes who can live are bringing themselves in close collision with that which cannot . The gear which is not oiled will by much friction grow hot , and give out a flame . It is not now as at the dissolution of monasteries ; the
* vturdy vagabonds' of the proclamations issued in the reign of the lext of the TudoFs were not in the case of our honest day-labourers , whose wages being under the mark were eked out by the rates ; mitU thfct at length is reformed . Pitt and the thousands of enalotu * e BiHs will explain the cause of the depreciated value of the Saturday nights shillings and pence , and the freedom of the rurei parish . ' Give me my unexeieed beer and my low rentpayingf eom / it e » pathetic a claim to the arbiters of our glories m that of Augustus f « hie legions . The English labourer , the i * e * efall dto fee * sympttfeiee uml noblest inatW * , thUd-taring *
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m ? Education , and Otndithn # / 4 U Rural Populmtion .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 682, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/54/
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