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Parl. Ref Bill
Reasons
II. Electors Who
Universality
Property bad qualification
Reading
Poor Education?
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Complication[?]
Between the plan for the education of the Poor, whatever it be and the requisition of the proposed faculty in the character of a qualification for voting between these two institutions is there any incompatibility? any thing of repugnancy? Quite the contrary. Not repugnancy, but facilitation.
As yet at least this scheme whatever it is comprises none but the non-adult. But, for the non-adult, Schools, with School Masters,there must be every where. Neither of the Schools nor of the Schoolmasters will the whole of the disposable time be employed in the non-adult. Here then are the necessary requisites all of them already provided. For the making the full advantage of them - For giving completion to the mind creating plan nothing more is needed than the correspondent inclination. This is what the reading qualification, in so far as inclination fails of flowing from other sources, gives. By this cause the effect is produced: and if by any other cause it can be produced certainly by no other at so cheap a rate.
The plan /design/ for the instruction of the non-adult could not take effect without funds, provided on purpose by the usual coercive means. Pursued in the mode here proposed the design for the instruction of the adult might be made to take effect, even without any such funds. In the former case the demand would /could/ not of itself suffice for the production of the supply: in the latter case the demand might of itself suffice for the production of the supply.
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Title: [[Copyist's hand] 1818 July 31 st]Description: [Copyist's hand] 1818 July 31 st + '.2 Parl. Reform Bill Reasons Note II. Electors who Universality Reading. Poor Education 1 15 15 Behold what a distribution of Bibles! Think at what an expence not only of money but of time. And this expence is it not well bestowed? Yes: where the Bibles find eyes prepared for /capable of/ reading them. But of what avail can even Bibles be were these mind-creating eyes are wanting.- Education of the Poor - already under this name is this an object with Government: with bad effects if with any is certain: for under every Government but that of a Representative Democracy and above all, in this Government, every thing that calls itself Establishment has in it what is bad. Whether with good effects such as to overbalance the bad effects remains to be see: the more thoroughly a man is acquainted with the texture of the Government, the less sanguine will be his expectations of any such preponderance. What in consequence of these views we are sure of, if of any thing, is Establishment upon Establishment. But establishment upon Establishment is {corruption upon corruption, and} waste upon corruption /waste/ and corruption upon corruption. Let any man, who is not a corruptionist in possession, prepare a wholesome remedy, the corruptionist in possession pounces on it with his baleful talons and converts it into poison.- Copying the example set them from above, {the} Trustees of Charities /Charitable foundations/ all over the Kingdom have {learnt to have} succeeded in converting these public funds to private use: such will everywhere be the universal tendency so long as man is man. After prodigious reluctance an Establishment is framed /formed/ under the notion of correcting this abuse. The Establishment is formed: and what will be the consequence? The hands by which it was formed suffice to shew.-
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Title: [1818 Aug 1 Parl. Reform Bill]Description: 1818 Aug 1 Parl. Reform Bill Reasons II. Electors Who Universality Reading Objections Complication Reading better than hearing Poor Education? 2 Complication[?] Thus simple is it - thus simple in the extreme - thus clear of complication in every shape.
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Title: [[Copyist's hand] 1818. July 31-]Description: [Copyist's hand] 1818. July 31- Parl Ref Bill Reasons II. Electors who Reading Poor Education 4 19 19 But suppose her really in danger - was it for you to turn your back upon her? You one of the most exalted and favored of the Sons? Ah rechreant[?] knight! Was not this - ask Lord Castlereagh else turning your back upon yourself? Whom can the self-created Goddess, whom to speak lightly of is blasphemy whom can she depend upon for a champion if not upon Lord Grenville: What could you have been at a loss for weapons? does not vice become virtue, absurdity reason, when employed in her defence?- Any inexpedient and misplaced scruples, is it possible they should ever disturb the mind of that Statesman whose first Act of power was to constitute himself sole check upon himself, to keep /heap/ Sinecure upon overpaid place and who lest he should cease to see himself in the Treasury saw a Hanover in Hampshire? Yes, Hanover in Hampshire: even as his less enabled and by nobility degraded kinsman saw America in Germany, when it was in Germany that he was bid to conquer it. But to return. Such are the objects such the fruits of Establishments. Establishment upon Establishment you may have: Establishment upon Establishment, and yet no reading, though they should all promise it. Make reading as here proposed the necessary Road to suffrage, you get reading, and you get it without Establishment. Look even to the so long self stiled and at last /length/ Charter Stiled National Institution /Society/: if it has produced so much /some/ reading for some reading, how ill applied soever, it has produced, it is because it has as yet had so little in it of Establishment.
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