THE present system of diffusing among the lower classes of the community, a portion of knowledge which it has been imagined must infallibly ameliorate their condition and promote their happiness, is so strictly in unison with the best feelings of our ...
THE present system of diffusing among the lower classes of the community, a portion of knowledge which it has been imagined must infallibly ameliorate their condition and promote their happiness, is so strictly in unison with the best feelings of our nature, and has been so universally sanctioned by popular admiration, that, hurried away by the intensity of our zeal in a cause so apparently humane, we have found neither leisure to examine its remoter consequences, nor inclination to scrutinize the means which have been employed for carrying it into effect.