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7. Popular Education in England. By D. D. Scott, Esq. London, 1833.
THAT it is the duty of a Christian People, to take care that,
in some way or other, facilities are afforded for the instruction of its youth, we suppose few will dispute. The God who constituted the various relations of social life, has imposed the obligation. It is the order of His providence, that every successive generation of the human family, shall in this particular, as well as in many others, be dependent upon that which precedes it. The chain which thus binds together the children of men, cannot be severed :-the responsibility which the connection involves, can never be evaded.
There are, it is true, a goodly number still to be found, who practically maintain the strange paradox, that it is not the will of God that all his rational creatures should be, in any enlarged sense of the word, intelligent. With such persons, we hold no