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Parl. Reform Bill
Reasons Note
II. Electors who
Universality
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Poor Education
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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: [[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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Title: [[Part in copyist's hand] 1818 August]Description: [Part in copyist's hand] 1818 August 1 Parl. Ref Bill Reasons II. Electors Who Universality Property bad qualification Reading Poor Education? 16 14 7 1 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]Description: [Copyist's hand] 1818 July 31 Parl Ref Bill Reasons II. Electors who Reading Poor Education 3 18 18 Thus it hath been done, and thus it ever shall continue to be done so long as the Constitution fashioned as it has been by such means and for such purposes /and by such means/ continues as it is: meaning always in a state of Gradual, and thence the more quiet and sure progression from worst to worse. Now - not to speak of Peers and Baronets - suppose that not more than a Single Bishop were to be found who after years upon years employed in elaborate contrivance, had succeeded in conveying into his own pocket, or that of a near and dear Relative a quantity of Mammon the thousandth part of which if thus in an unguarded moment misconveyed by mere manual dexterity would suffice to consign to the Gallows a starving but unpriviledged Depredator say, if to any such practice, any the slightest corrective were to be applied, what w d be the consequences? The whole fabric of the Church would it not fall to pieces the whole fabric of the Church and with it and with it that of the state? That whole fabrick which for such purposes and by such means has been constituted what it is? Answer Earl of Liverpool. Answer Lord Viscount Sidmouth. Answer Lord Baron Grenville. Nay, good Lord Grenville, shrink not from the question: for it places you in the best of Company. This scene of harrow did it not visit you in one of your waking dreams? Did it not disturb your Reason? did it not frighten you from the professed commission? Alas! where was your Memory 2? Where was your faith 1? {Even in a case like this} Could you not trust the noble Earl not even in a case like this? Could you not trust the noble Viscount? Think you - now that dreams are over - think you that in such hands so much as a single hair of the head of the dear and Holy Mother would ever be suffered to be touched? Shew, if it be possible, that corruption, that mischief, that wickedness, which, it being established we are not prepared mid [...?] to defend!
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