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culture. Nevertheless this portion of the act has 

 passed ; but that which destined the surplus to the 

 religious education of the people, according to the 

 respective religious tenets of the various classes, 

 has been rejected most decidedly, because a portion 

 of the produce of the tithes would be appropriated, 

 according to this plan, to educate Catholics. The 

 appropriation of this surplus has not yet been 

 made. 



SECTION XXXVII. 



GENERAL. REFLECTIONS ON THE HABITS OF THE WORK- 

 ING CLASSES, AND THE MEANS OF IMPROVING THEM. 



WE have now proposed such remedial measures as we 

 hope will tend to ameliorate the general condition of the 

 Irish poor ; but, whatever may be their tendency, their 

 efficacy, under Providence, must depend mainly upon 

 those who possess power and influence in the country. It 

 is only through these that the poor can be put into proper 

 courses of industry, taught the value of comforts, or ani- 

 mated to exertions to procure them. In proportion as 

 such persons are raised high, they have high duties to 

 perform ; they are endowed with wealth and intelligence, 

 not as means of self-indulgence, or for effecting any sordid 

 object of ambition, but as trusts for the good of their 

 fellow-creatures, and which they administer under an awful 

 responsibility. "We earnestly hope that this may be felt 



