1831 July 15

Parliamentary Candidates Declaration

V. Education for all

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Whatsoever man there is, whose wish it is, because his interest

appears to him to be - that the people should be demoralized[?], of that man will it

be the wish, that, at the Schools for all in which the instructors are functionaries

in the pay of Government religion should be admitted among the subjects of the

instruction.

And is not the knowledge of religion useful? Is it any thing less

than /short of/ necessary? And would you (I hear it said) would you have this most

useful of all knowledge kept from being imparted to the mind of all in this the most

susceptible state of their existence? - Oh yes, I answer - but by the Parents and

Guardians of all such as have either Parents or Guardians: by those Parents and

Guardians and by no one else /or by none else/: by nobody /no one (and for the

reasons already given)/ rather than by the functionaries of government: those

children accepted[?] who, being poor and orphans have neither Parents nor Guardians

and are maintained at the expence of government: if to those religion /any/ must be

taught at the expence of government, those are they to whom it must be so taught.