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Excerpt from The Romance of the Streets
Yet who has not sometimes encountered one of an almost extinct school of political economists, whose sympathies are not with the schoolmaster? In face of the contrary testimony of history, we are assured that ignorance is the best security for the obedience of the poor and the prosperity of the Opulent. Not very long ago a justice of the peace was heard declaiming on the bench against 'the evils of education.' If such persons are honest in expressing what they believe, we may recognise their honesty but doubt their judgment. Probably such would rejoice in reintroducing a condi tion of afi'airs such as existed in the early part of last century, when only children were found in all the charity schools Of England! Though open to conviction, we have not yet discovered that England's prospective dangers are based on copy-books and grammars, nor that a spread of knowledge among the poor will injuriously affect our national industries. Nevertheless, though seldom pushing them into print, many deal privately in hushed-up Objections to a spread of education, and parade as impending dangers what we regard as vanquished enemies. Objections, long ago exploded, but supposed by some to be inimical to national progress, are marshalled in argumentative array, and pointed out as assuming a threatening front. But Christian philanthropists have no time for dealing with objections; while God and conscience bid them go forward, they pursue their calling in faith and hope.
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