The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-04

/. has bee. a matter of assonishmcnt that the
N,f.h. which has always boasted Of its universally
difascd intellectual cultivation, should exhibit such
raonstrous wickeincss as this war has dcvelopcd-
Bat al history illustrates truth which is the vital
basis Of Rcvolution-thc deprayiiy 81 the human
hcArs--and demonstrates the incfieioncy Of intel
lectual cultivation TO remedy that defect Of human
nature. u was not the popularity Of power bong
vested in fcw hands, as we may now see, which
caused the wrongs and outrages of which society
formerly complained but the aheren. dopravity OF
mon, which becomes no less manifest and dcp.orabe
by changing the seat OF power.
There profound truth in tic observation OF
Colel.dSc-" The more yiltue the mole liberty In
te,iiecnce cannot sufps the place Of virtue Miss
Edgew'orth told tlN truth when she put onto the
mouth u one u her cha~acteTs-" Edioaion viii do
great deal hut it won't chansc The "d!T that is
ia ;lcTa" /. is the universal testimony Of history
taSi E.. chose ages Of society in which knowledge
was most generally diifasei and religion neglected.
corruption was most widely spread.
Statistical tsbieS have been published which es-
t4b.is this iac; That education alone cannot in
sp:Fe Tie character beyond the reach Of contyadic-
ton The experiment has been fairly tried in Eng
lai.a. faaco and Germany, whore for many years,
the.nost Edcftiigabie efforts have boon made both
b. Government and private societies, to promote
o'ia~ati0n, In France, The effort was, for half a
century, 10 extend intellectual cultivation and 1T
the same fine 2epr"ss religion The result in France
Is admitted by wing synpa,hiscr in England,
Salwog, IN these words: @ While crimes against The
person aa2 Aqost freqvcat in Corsica, the provinces
Cf the Southeast mad Alsace, where the people are
aceN ias.ys'rfeG there the e'res' of those crimes
in Berry, Lnon-in and Brt;anny, where the people
are tho most ignorant. Aud Is for crimes against
pr3pliety, it Is almost invariably those departments
that are The bos; informed which the most cIiTi-
ma; fact which clearly shows that If instruction
doe not increase eylIac there is to believe
t;lat !, dim'nishcs it. This admission of Mr.. Bul-
wog Is based on labo~;ou+ returns obtained by the
Fgcn,h Government from all the departments Of the
emp;rc, AID illustrated by maps pared by NJ
Guerry. from which it appears that, wherever the
number of educated person. IS the greatest, there
o.ime i most froquent and that wherever it IS the
least, crime is most rare.
Statistics of crime in England and Wales prove
that, whilst education has been more universally
disseminated that before, the increase Of crime
has been more rapid than that of the population;
and that in S5otand where education is almost uni
ve-sal, Il is rapid than in England Aud rs
TO the United States, the Baron Tocqueville, the
most enlightened and philo5ophic traveller in that
republic, long ago Observed " In Connecticut, where
there $ far more instruction than in New York
cimo increases with terrible rapidly; and if one
cannot accuse knowledge the cause Of this, one is
obli5eG 10 ool5-5a2lc5ge II is no prepentton."
Henoo VIC may dismiss our establishment at the
display Of Yankee 1epravity in this war. The value
OF education ,biDa5 with yirtn1s TRAINING ~,
one but a mailman would deny. Separated from il,
in the Northern States, it Is only an instrument
Of vast force, capable Of being exercised to the
worst purposes. The power to read and write does
not check evil desires bad passions of any kind
II has been well observed that the Devil was the
great prototype Of the perfection of intellect With
cut virtue; and every days experience Especially
that Of tins war demonstrates that the mere cult
walton Of The intellectual faculty. without proper
fiouGte os moral and religious instruction is
only letting loose legion OF devils on the world
That Intelligence IS nos apart from virtue, airy
more bulv-.ll Of freedom than of moranty also
proved by the facility with which the Yankee rco-
PIE, who can all read and write, have parted with
al the liberties achieved by their forefathers in the
Revolution.
Lord Brougham once said he did not despair
of seeing the day when every poor man should read
Bacon. Goblet added it would be much more to
the purpose if it could give them all the means OF
eating it.