...subordination, it would render them factious and refractory, as was evident in the manufacturing counties; it would enable them to read seditious pamphlets,...it would render them insolent to their superiors. . . . Beside, ... it would go to burden the country with a most enormous expence, and to load the industrious...

...instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them factious and refractory, as was evident in the manufacturing counties3; it would enable them...magistrate with much more vigorous laws than were now 1 Hansard, vol. ix. cols. 539-550. 2 Ibid. cols. 798-806. 3 There is something painful in this callous...

...subordination it would render them factious and refractory, as was evident in the manufacturing counties ; it would enable them to read seditious pamphlets,...magistrate with much more vigorous laws than were now in force." The occasion of these remarks, the tone of which would shock almost all of us to-day, was...

...subordination it would render them factious and refractory, as was evident in the manufacturing counties; it would enable them to read seditious pamphlets,...magistrate with much more vigorous laws than were now in force." More remarkable as an illustration of the opinion of a section of the public upon the education...

...destined them; instead of teaching them subordination, it would render them factious and refractory ; it would enable them to read seditious pamphlets,...find it necessary to direct the strong arm of power against them and to furnish the executive magistrate with much more vigorous laws than were now in...

...vehe20 mently opposed the extension of literacy to wage-earners on the ground that, if they could read, "it would enable them to read seditious pamphlets,...vicious books and publications against Christianity". The long stretch of time from Egypt in the Fourth Millennium, BC, to the English Education Act of 1870...