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    $ ourteenthly . —Teacher-rnen . These may be classed under the three heads of writers , parsons , and schoolmasters , who are again divided into two great bodies , the true and the false . The false may again be subdivided into the false by design , and the false by ignorance . Writers are improving rapidly . A few leading minds have spread abroad a number of truths which are now finding a fitting soil , and large numbers of

    writers are occupied in giving them a wider growth under the guise of their own inspiration . The false writers are daily shrinking from the contest , as it is the nature of truth to be permanent when it once takes root ; while falsehood , on the contrary , rapidly withers without constant cultivation . The parsons are mostly ranged on the side of falsehood , for they

    know that the public will provide for a better application of their funds , when they begin clearly to see their mal-appropriation . Thus vjce plays into virtue ' s hands . The Established Church , with great pains , has gathered together and preserved a large source of revenue which must ultimately be applied to the purposes of education . As for our present race of

    schoolmasters , they are merely hotel keepers , making a profit on the boarding and lodging of a certain number of boys , teachers being provided to communicate parrot knowledge . Morals !! they are not known in schools—they all merge in " respectability . " Of a very similar kind are our colleges and universities .

    Lastly . —Pauper-men . These form a considerable portion of society . They are the useless people , who , being necessarily without occupation , have abundance of leisure to appropriate to themselves , by one means and another , a portion of the fruits of the exertions of their fellow-creatures . They are found in all ranks , and are more numerous in proportion

    amongst the Birth-men than in any other class . Lord Teynham once wrote a pamphlet to prove that the way to render the House of Lords independent , was to allow each individual composing it , a salary of two thousand annual pounds from the public . It is quite true that we must support the pauper-men somehow or other ; for even were it not a moral duty , it is a

    matter of expediency . Otherwise they would become thieves and robbers ; but certainly it is a hardship on the low-bred paupers , that the high-bred paupers should get a larger share from the public . They have a right to be fed , but all ought to be fed alike , and their rations should be somewhat lower than the worst fed of those who do work ; for , if the pauper be better off than the labourer , then there is an immediate inducement

    to all labourers to become paupers . There is of course always a considerable number of paupers who do not depend directly upon the public , but indirectly— -i ' . e . they live upon their relations who work for the public , but the consequence is , that

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    Social Clarification . iff ?

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    No . 113 . X

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/33/