I Am Persuaded, That If Any Attempt

I Am Persuaded, That If Any Attempt Is Made To Improve The Education Of The Poor, And Such An Unmanly Spirit Should Guide The Resolution Of A Society Or Committee For That Purpose, It Would Render The Design Abortive.

This System Of Encouragement Proves Serviceable As A Preventive Of Punishment, The Attainment Of The Tickets Being A Reward, The Forfeiture Of Them The Reverse; And, As Such, Boys Seem Often More Affected By Their Loss Than By Coercion.

At A Moderate Calculation, Among A Million Of Persons Inhabiting The Metropolis, There Are, At Least, Twenty-five Thousand Children Who Attend These Schools, And Cost Their Parents As Many Pounds Sterling, Per Annum.

Many Thousands Of Youth Have Been Deprived Of The Benefit Of Education Thereby, Their Morals Ruined, And Talents Irretrievably Lost To Society, For Want Of Cultivation: While Two Parties Have Been Idly Contending Who Should Bestow It.

It Is Difficult To Speak Or Write With Becoming Moderation Or Propriety, On Topics To Which We Are Biased By Prejudice, Interest, Or Even Principle.