Considerations on the System of Parochial Schools in Scotland: And on the Advantage of Establishing Them in Large Towns (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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But the reverse of all this holds true, of the moral or intellectual wants of our nature. The want of virtue, so far from sharpening, has the effect of extinguishing the desire for virtue.

The same is true of the want of knowledge. The more destitute we are of these articles, the more dead we are as to any inclination for them. Under the mere operation of demand and supply, there are sufficient guarantees in the constitution of nature, that the people will themselves make a primary movement after food. But there is no such guarantee for their ever making a primary movement after instruo tion. It is not from the quarter of ignorance, that we can at all look for the first advance towards knowledge; nor can we ever expect, that, for this object, a people as yet untaught, will surrender, either for their own behalf; or that of their children, any sensible proportion of that money, which went to the purchase of their physical gratifications.

The night of ignorance is sure to be per. Petuated in every land, where no extraneous attempts are made, on the part of the wealthy and enlightened, for the object of its dissipation. And if the wholly unendowed system be ind competent to. The effect of planting a habit of education among a people, in the first instance, it cannot be the best system for upholding that habit, where it is already established; and far less can it be the best for arresting the of this habit in a country, where, if educati be upon the decline, the desire for educati 'will be sure to decline along with it.

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