Evidence as to the Religious Working of the Common Schools in the State of Massachusetts; With a Preface - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. The following evidence was presented more than two years ago, to the Committee of the House of Commons, on the Manchester and Salford Education Bill; and was printed in the Appendix to the first volume of that Committee's Report. In consideration, however, of the small number of persons who are disposed to examine Blue Books, it is now reprinted separately, in a form more accessible to the majority of readers. I will, at the same time, briefly explain how this evidence came into my possession, and what fs its nature. In parts of the years 1849-1850, I travelled in various States of the North American Union, and I was especially struck by the high standard of intelligence and the general mental superiority which prevailed among the inhabitants of New England. In considering the causes of that superiority, it seemed impossible to account for it merely by peculiarities in race, religion, or political institutions. As to race, the main body of their ancestors were 21,200 Englishmen, (including men, women, and children,) who left their mother country and settled in North America, between the years 1620 and 1643. Genealogical researches seem to shew that nothing material depends on the part of England from which those ancestors A 2 r came. Lincolnshire, the adjoining-parts of Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Middlesex and Devonshire, made the largest contributions; but some came from every Cathedral town, and almost every seaport; and I have been assured by Mr. James Savage, the learned and accurate President of the Massachusetts Antiquarian Society, that there is not a single English county which did not send to New England at least one emigrant. Again, religion, by itself, appeared to be an inadequate solution of the problem, i...

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