1831 July 13

Parliamentary Candidates’ Declaration

Education

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Sowing in the words of lilyunt[?] in the crude[?] the seeds of wars[?] and ill will

to all men but a few and of envy malice and all […?]

V. Universalisation of Education promised

Application of useful knowledge to the mind at an early part of life /stage in the

career/, constitutes one part, and that the principal of the process known by the

general name of Education. Under this, considered as a separate head /an additional

con[?]/ little will accordingly have to be said.

He who by any such indirect and insidious means act[?] only[?] to force upon others

his own persuasion or the profession of it is many[?] like all the rest of the

constituents[?] to choose[?] all those by any of whose opinions different from those

in question was[?] only[?], by the exclusion thus sought to be put upon from the

trust in question: to those who share with him in let[?] his persuasion[?] or

profession, by lower than with estimates of all friends to discern[?] tyrant[?] […?]

Of the cares that belong to this beast, one of the most important is – that be the

institutions established for the purpose[?] what they may, no individual on the score

of any persuasion respecting religion be excluded /deterred/ from a participation

whatsoever benefit may be derivable from them

That accordingly in any /no[?]/ and every School or other seat and source of

instruction, specially applied to the instruction of Youth, religion in any of its

forms shall be taken for the subject of /included in the matter[?] of/ instruction:

but that all instruction belonging to that all-important subject be left to each such

persons Parents and Guardians /to the care of Parents and Guardians/ the free choice

of each person’s Parents and Guardians aided by the Societies instituted by the

several Sects for the propagation of their respective tenets and opinions

As a tax upon the instruments /matter/ of knowledge is a prohibition of the use of

them to all who are not able to pay the tax, so, a condition annext to the faculty of

seeing[?] how[?] matter of knowledge, is a prohibition of the use of it to all who by

persuasion or profession on the subject or religion are prohibited[?] from the

acceptance of the benefits whether undertaken[?] to confer.