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easy circumstances, when the physical cause of 

 their suffering and distress, so far as it is indepen- 

 dent of the moral cause, is overcome, the difficulty 

 of overcoming the moral cause will not be so 

 great ; still the moral cause, the depravity of man 

 remains, and this must be subdued before any 

 great and permanent physical improvement can 

 take place. And, though, the present physical 

 condition of the poor may be improved, which will 

 be a step to their permanent improvement, still no 

 lasting benefit will take place until the moral cause 

 of their suffering and misery is subdued. Reme- 

 dies, partially applied for the cure of a general and 

 inveterate disorder, as is the case at present, and 

 must be so long as the government of the country 

 and the mass of the educated population do not 

 see the magnitude and danger and inveteracy of 

 the disorder, must fall short of reaching the gene- 

 ral evil and effecting the general benefit. Reme- 

 dies to be universally salutary must be universally 

 applied and there are two remedies which may 

 be universally applied, which would reach the 

 universal evils, and which would accomplish an 

 universal benefit, the universal religious educa- 

 tion of the people, and a wise, vigilant, and bene- 

 volent ministerial superintendence in every parish. 

 To instruct them in various branches of knowledge 

 and science is all very well, as, in these days, the 

 human mind will not be unoccupied ; but edu- 

 cation that stops here, will not reach the' great 

 cause of individual and national suffering and 



