Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-07-26

darkness OF Colleges as compared wnh
Mines, and on the prejudlciai atmosphere
al Sears OF Learning as compared with
Seats of Labor, would be highly advan-
tageouS to the pubic interes, and nigh,
possibly open the public eyes. =.
1.-The Commissioners have ever since
been actively engaged in pursuing their
inquiries into this subject; and deducing
trom the mass Of evidence such concIu.
slons as appeared to them to be warranted
by the facts. Their report is now before
US, and though it has not vet been pre-.
scented to Parliament, we venture to give
it entire
The Commissioners fnd:
T." First, with regard TO EMPLOYMENT
That The intellectual works in the Uni
versity OF Oxford are, in all essential ma
tIcu!arS, precisely what they were wnen
1t was first established for the manufacture
lot Clefgymen. That they alone have
stood stll, Tor, in the very few instances
10 which they have moved at all, have
moved backward,) when all other works
nave advanced aud improved. That the
nature OF he employment IN which tho
young persons are engaged, Is, by reason
OF It's exclusive dust and resi-. extremely
! peTnicious and Destructive. That they all
become short-sighled ia must remat ka-
bic degree; that, fer the most part, they
Hose the use Of their reason at a very cary
aye, and are seldom known TO recover il.
( That he most hopeless and painful rx-
tremes of deafness aud blindness are Irr-
Iqaent among them. They are reduced
10 such a melancholy safe Of apathy and
indifference, as to be wiling 10 sign any
Thug, without asking what it is, or know
t|EG what It mesIs; which is a toumoa
custom with these unhappy persons, even
to the eXten. OF nine-tnd- thirty articles at
once. That. from the monolonUus ua.urc
Of their employment, and the dali routine
lot their unvarying drudgery, (which re-
Iq0ires no exercise of original intelEectual
power, but is ii mere parrot-lIle PERFORM
ance,) they become painfully unIform in
character and perfection, aud are reduced
10 one dead level Ga very dead one, as
l. Your Commissioners beleve) of mental
lmbec!ii>y. That cramps aud parulys s
Of all the higher faculties OF the brain are
the ordinary results Of this system Of Ia
Dor. And your Commissioners can tru,v
add, thai they found nothing in the avoc;-
lions of the miners Of Scotland, the knit .
grinders of Sheffield, or the workers in
iron Of Wolverhampton one-haIf so pre-
:, iullcal 10 the persons engaged therein, or
one-haIfs 50 injurious TO society. as this "a.
al system of employment in the UHiver-
suv Of Oxford
Secondly, with regard to the Prevailing
Ignorance ...
That the condition OF the University at
Oxford, under this head, is of the most a D.
Taiing kind; insomuch that vour Com
: mjssioners are firmly Of opinion that, talk
ing all the attendant circumstances into
consideration, the Young Persons en-
PIoypd in Mines and Manufactures are
enllgh ,t ned beings, radiant with inteIIi-
: gence, and Overlooking with the best re-
suits Of knowledge, when compared with
he persons, young and Old, en- poved in
he Manufacture Of C3ergvmtn at Oxford
Aud yuEr Commissioners have been I'D
to this conclusion, not so much by tht
K peguSat Of rrize poems, a0d a due regard
i o the very small number Of Young Per
: sons accustomed to University Employ
:. mpnt, who distinguish themselves ia al En-
lifs, or become IN any way healthy OF
o WEoleSome; as bv Immediate reteTeuct
Y 10 The evidence taken on the two Goa
S missions, and an impartial consideration
Il of The two classes cf testimony, side b.
SIDE.
J. That it is. PROFESSIONALLY true that {
5. boy WAS examined under the Children
:. EN- Oloyment Commission, at Brinstey, il
t.: Dtrbyshice, who had been three years a
= school, and could not spell " Church :;
i whereas there is no doubt that the peg
~ sous empI9ged in the University Of OK
i iord can ali spell Church with great read
1t mess, and. indeed. very seldom spell any
|. ithiag else. But, on the other AND, |
Y must not be forgotten that, in the minds 0
j. The persons employed iU the University
4 at Oxford, such comprehensive words a
> Justice, mercy, charity, kindness, brother
e " love, gentteness and good works, awaIi
,e en- no ideas whatever; while the evidence
a shows that the most prcpOsterOus nation
r. ARE attached 10 the mere terms Pfiest adt
sc Faith O3e young person, employed il
Mine, had no other idea of a SUpren
Being than 'that be had heard him con
= slantly damned at; but use the verb II
dana, in this horrible connection, wiz
\. the Founta n Head of Mercy, in The ac
!, tive sense, instead 81 the passive oue aant
"a make the Deny the nomnative case 10
IF stead Of the objecuve; and how many
j persons, employed In the University o
b. Oxford, have their whole faith In, ans
S whole knowledge OF, the Mixer Of the
n World presented in worse aud far NOR,
d mpious SENTENCED -. "-:.... IL
.e That the answers Of persons employed
Is in the said University, to questions put Il
e them bv. the Sub Commissioners in tn,
j. progress fthis inquiry, bespoke mora
< degradation infinitely lower than any