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1818 July 31 st + '.2

Parl. Reform Bill

Reasons Note

II. Electors who

Universality

Reading.

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.-