On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
of » 4 fee < lefcetne , Bound reli g ious instruction . Now , while tbere e * i * t * aitch extreme divemUgr of « hpinipn as to wha&xx > &Mitutes *** * &mfr teHgic w * iiMMttitt , " . to talk ol that a * * ffor 4 iugft baais for a plan of national education , is obviousl y a very Sad jeat or something worse ; aad to act upoa such advice if earious ^ would be , in cfffect , striving to frustrlite auy scheme
which might have the advantage of being practicable by $ nfebracing a */ , without distinction of religious belief . A dogma of this kind , coupled with picture * of _ Sand * Y sell oofs falling into decay , is not likely to fail of its effect * it ia ea * y , indeed , to assert that such apprehensions are founded oji e gross delusion , that they are in themselves illogical and suicidal ; so they may be , but mere assertion will do
nothing to remove them . If you would aim at this , you must labour to demonstrate the litter insufficiency of the now existing means of education , all put together , —the impossibility of getting anything lik ^ s yste - matic education from the isolated exertions of bodies and individuals having no common ground of union ; the importance of iiavu&g education regarded ( by the pool not less thaa byiJ ridh ) as . a right , not a charity ; the fallacy of calling a determination to do good in one particular way , or else to prevent it firom being done at all , by the name of benevolence ; in sfewt ^ thg absolute necessity of combining the ener gies of the country in a consistent and continuous series of operations , uoitittg localized administration with centralized direction , in Qudwr 4 o en ^ wne tiat the m ean s of ed ucation aball be uiiiveraally intell in
acoes ^ ifcil ^ and aa goo d as the human ec t its preseut B 4 itefih ^ l 5 o able to make them . , , , i 3 f Abctse of ( xiepeaied po # ttious be sound , fall and . Aee dUcussion must ultimately eat * blish them ; . if unsound / £ ne aoooer tideir weakness is exposed the better : every way it would jtt « k 4 hat a society , including men of different parties . * freja tQ > h « Etr both fiideb , and to press them on the pubfic attention by
« 4 tedy , ooatinuous effort , is well calculated for the purpose . Here , however , is a work requiring considerably time ; it watt no doubt be loag ere the opinion of the country be cipe for entrusting its education to its governmo&t , or iaclWd * ere the f ; qpvtfiMmmnt Ateelf be fit for the ta ^ - WhaAeUe may be meantime
< tol ^ u ^^ i . Iwreiyboidy is a ^ eed that one of tke prime cauaee of eo xwi * h | bM awl insufficient wkicajtion la Eagland , ia ua niuUitudft oi utterly uoq * kalified aoliaolmMters . The other , day thi * . t . . . .. .
H $ oWm > ihi * i * B * miC- »*»» «* +, M q * 0 * m l + r * Ifonwm ** H * g ^ im ^ n « H Qpmwlit »^ Mr WyK M , P . fm Wrtirfrni ; tb « Committ # « of HaiiMpmMi in ^ id # « Ml ^ Xamf Mraf % Mt ^ wi ^ p ^ l ^ Mp ^ rd , ^ WiH ^ JMftim H ^^ XWMdii iMUbl , iw 3 «^ 'limTS ^ ^ JlccT - 7 ^ - '^ ^ rrs ^ ie ;^ ill 2 7 v
Untitled Article
aitO On teJ ^ toa Xm &mm ^ rfJtnJmy
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 670, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/18/
-