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of dispositions . Fixed rules and maxims are nevertheless accepted , and remain long immutable in seminaries and colleges for education . It was prejudice that caused the reading of Locke ' s Essay on the Understanding to be forbidden by the sage heads of Oxford ;—and it is prejudice that causes
tbe same work to be now the metaphysical text-book at Cain ! bridge , to the exclusion of others . It is prejudice , besotted prejudice , that places in the hands of the students at the latter University such an author as Paley for their standard of morals —Paley , who robs virtue of her best attributes , disinterestedness and love , by a miserable definition of the term , replete with all the selfishness of the school of Rochefoucault ; and
who glazes the vice of lying by sophisms perfectly complaisant to the convenience of the great . It is prejudice , or rather bigotted intolerance , which closes the doors of the Bodleian library against the students of Oxford until they shall have p assed four years at the Uuiversity—when , as most of them have graduated and e ; one forth into the world , the permission
to enter is a mockery . It is prejudice that places in the hands of youth as a guide and monitor such an author as Chesterfield whose nolitenese is contemptible dissimulation , and whose rules of conduct are instructions how to conceal vulgar vices by grimace , misnamed good breeding " , —in other words how to cover filth with tinsel . Lord Chesterfield was a narrow and
vulgar minded man , the slave of conventional politeness and profoundly ignorant of real morality . His sole merit was in being able to perform by practised deceit that which better and wiser men do spontaneously . And the letters written by this " noble Lord" form the text book of English manners !
" O Ternj ) ora , O Mores /"— Prejudice allows the work of Dr . Watts to be the course of logical stud y at Oxford , but would have sternly denied to the body of the Author , as a dissenter , admittance within the walls of the University . It is prejudice , mighty prejudice , that supposes belief in the incomprehensible thirty-nine articles of the Church of England
necessary to qualify a man for curing the bodily ailments of his fellow creatures , or understanding the jurisprudence of hie country ;—? or at least , in the event of his conscientious refusal to subscribe to a jargon he cannot understand , debars him from the mode of education presumed to be best calculated for either of those ends .
But it would be an endless task to rake up a catalogue of prejudices . In all incorporated bodies , colleges , institutions , and amongst those men upou whom devolves the care of edu-r cation , and tbe ordering , as it were , the opinions of nations , and large bodies of men , they are innumerable . In all countries
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918 Curiery Remark * am Prejudice .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/54/
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