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thing" particularly the little
that our limited resources will al
? low you to give.
But to the history and statistics
; Of which | have spoken. Please
r Governor, turn to your LIST volum,
, AlisOn's History Of Europe-ir il
wasn't captured" during the
slate sand vol
will find on pages II and Is the
following:
: knowledge" says Lord Bacon
=, sis PoWer." He has not said n
is either wisdom or virtue. II
} this respect a capital mistake la.
been committed both bY the specu.
: iative and active part of mankind
} of late years; and, what Is very re.
markable, by the religious teach.
ers, whose principles should have
led them most to distrust the Of.
I ficacy Of intellectual cultivation in
arresting the corruption of man.
kind. They forgot that it was
eating of the fruit of the tree OF
knowledge which expelled our
first parents from Paradise-that
the prccept Of our Saviour was to
preach the pOspel to all nations,
not to educate all nations. Ex.
pcrience has now abundantlv veri.
fed the melancholy truth so often
enforced in Scripture, so constant
ly forgotten by mankind, that in.
t~ellectual cultivation has no ef.
feet in arresting the sources Of
evil in the human heart that it
alters the direction of crime, but
docs not alter its amount.
y = y n 4
This is a melancholy truth: so
melancholy, indeed, that it is far
from being generally admitted
even by the best informed Der.
sons; and II is SO Notifying to
the pride Of human intellect, that
1t is probably the last one which
will be generally admitted by man.
kind. Nevertheless, there is none
which is supported by u more
widespread and unvarying mass
OF proofs, or which, when rightly
considered, might more naturally
be anticipated from the structure
Of tue human mind. The utmost
efforts have, for O quarter of O
century, been made in various
countries 10 extend the blessings
of education to the labOring
classes; but not only has no dimi-
mutton in consequence been per
ceptible in the amount Of crime
and the turbulence OF mankind,
but the effect has been just the re.
verse; they have both signally and
alarmingly increased. Education
has been made q matter Of State
policy in Prussia, and every child
Is, by the compulsion OF govern.
ment, sent to school; but so far
has this universal spread Of in
~struction been from Graduating
the seeds of evil, that serious
crime is fourteen times as prcva-
lent, in proportion to the popula.
ton in Prussia, as 1t is in France,
where about two-thirds of the
whole inhabitants can neither
read nor write In France itself,
it has been ascertained, from the
returns collected in the Stats
tique Morale de Ia France" of
commitments for crimes tried at
the assizes, and the number of
children at school, that the amount
Of crime in all the eighty-three
Departments is, without one single
exception, in proportion to the
amount Of instruction received:
and accordingly in the very curious
and interesting tables constructed
by NJ. Query, the lightest Depart.
ments in the map showing the
amount of education, are the
darkest in that showing the
amount of crime.4 By far the
greater proportion Of the ladies of
pleasure in Paris come from the
districts to the north ofthc Loire,
the most highly educated in
France, In Scotland, the edu.
Gated criminals are to the unedu.
Gated as ~ to /; in England, as >
to | nearly: in ireland they are
about equal In Amerjca, Me
educated CrimiaoiS are IN mast 81
the states ofthe onion Mrce times
the UaedNcdted. and some dou1ie
only; in all, g,eatlg superior an
number. These facts, to all per
sons capable of yielding assent to
in opposition to prcju-
dice, completely settle the qpcs-
ton; but the conclusion to which
lead is so adverse to general ,
opinion, that probably more than
one generation must descend To
graves before they agc gen ,
orally admitted. ,
10 Franco eal Prus,a uhtrc we.c yc. ,
.peciiycly N ls!j, /
P.u".a Fr,rce /
A.ue o.. iLs, person 1a.gi.i9!. iHa!Il =
Do property N 81 . % 4aH. !
On the whole .....,..., Ia Isl : IN ! rs [
see Alison Essays.I J.. US. :
t,ee 'statisiique Morale de Ia France" |
Iar ii. Query, Paris, ISL "a most interest
NJ work, the results OF which are well
Ibridsei In BulweT's ~'fraEce," Vol. {. p. I
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