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1818 August 1

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.