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i&kafh n \ ittib $ r of houi * . Ths work in & fttctory is ntft ' l&boifouB ; die time could not haVe "been suffldeiit to efchaftstf bf over-fatigue them ; as long as the unnatural St&t 6 of atitfety requires labour from children at all , this would be a light fol * m of it . If under such an arrangement the education clause Iiad
been enforced , and an enlightened system , combining physical , intellectual , and moral training had been established b y the Legislature , with efficient people to conduct it , a body of children sufficiently large to exert a very powerful influence on the character of the rising generation , would have been brought under its operation . The Bill , as sent up from the Commons , would have insured
( had it been obeyed in practice ) education to all the young persons ¦ within the age under restriction ; but the education clauses which rendered it imperative that a school should be attached to every manufactory , ( for reasons insisted upon , and ftijly argued in the Report ) were damaged so as to be nullified in the House of Lords . They do not like the reading poor .
The opportunity has been lost . With very few exceptions the system of relays has never been acted upon at all in England ; and the education clause has been utterly disregarded on the plea of impracticability . In Scotland the exceptions are much larger , but in the majority of instances it has
been the same . The effect of the hill has been to make the master manufacturers dismiss all children under the restricted age . During the present session it has been proposed to make that age the commencement of the thirteenth , instead of the fourteenth year . If this alteration had been effected , the
priucip le of the bill would have been nullified . The conditions wnich only just begin to exist at the later period , can by no means be supposed to exist at the earlier , ana that any system of education should , in this case , have arisen out of the factory regulations , would have been hopeless . There is abundant evidence that such mi alteration is
altogether unnecessary . The plan of working with relays of children has been successfully tried in upwards of sixty mills in Scotland ; and if practicable there , why not elsewhere ? From the Report * of Mr . Horner , the inspector for Scotland , We also see , that in several instances excellent regulations have been tfiade as to education , and have vrorked well * Thii
gentleman appears to have exerted himself greatly to pfonNHe the educational part of the plan ; but he hns evidently been unsupported b y any of his colleagues . We make the following extract from his Report for 1834 .
' * I have &aid , that several mill-owner * in my district are now employing children under eleven yean * of » ge , and workittg thefti by relays . Moat of them are only to a liiriiteo extent , and the pi Ah Hfc » been tried for too short a time to enabl * on * to form art opililtfh * t to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/62/
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