1831 July 15

Parliamentary Candidates Declaration

V. Education for All.

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Oh[?] ye[?] But I would not see tyranny[?] cloven-foot govern under

the mask of piety

Suppose a School set on foot /A School suppose is opened/ but not

only useful knowledge in other shapes /at large/ is taught, but instruction in the

subject of religion in the form in which it is imparted by the teachers of one alone

of the [...?] number of the seats, and that one the teachers of which are in the pay

of government. What is the consequence? Denied of useful knowledge to one part of the

people: a pretence given for insincerity and insincerity thereby produced in the

minds of no one knows how large a part of those to whom it is not desired. Of those

Parents and Guardians who do not choose that on this all important subject opinions

different from their own should be entertained by their children none will send their

children to the School: and how small is the number of those Parents and Guardians

who /whom/ on this all-important subject opinions different from their own should be

entertained by their children! to all those children the useful knowledge imparted at

that school is denied: and the children to whom it is thus important are those not

those only who if the seat they belong be no different from that the constituted

authorities profess to belong to are content[?] /consent/ in the view of it the

Members of the seat that on this all important subject their children shall receive

[...?] instruction, and at that price to purchase for their children /at that price/

whatsoever useful instruction they receive