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, clothing, and surroundings. Very few know much about 

 the wholesomeness of food and drinks, or what constitutes a 

 healthy and sufficient diet. Children and youth, from pure 

 ignorance, fall into the most destructive habits and vices. 

 Young girls, from lack of right teaching and direction, have 

 their characters destroyed and their lives wrecked. Young 

 people marry and take upon them the cares of a family in 

 utter ignorance of all the duties and responsibilities of such a 

 position. Men enter upon the business of life with no know 

 ledge of political economy ; they assume the duties of the suff- 

 rage in profound ignorance of politics or history. Farmers 

 know little of agriculture; artizans are almost destitute of the 

 technical education necessary to success in the various mechanic 

 arts. The higher classes learn more or less of Latin and Greek, 

 rowing and cricket, as a preparation for the responsibilities of 

 wealth and power, the care of great estates, and the government 

 of the nation. 



Had the clergy of the Church of England, for the last three 

 centuries, been rightly educated for their duties, the people 

 would also have been educated during all this period. Had 

 they only done their duty, the people placed under their charge 

 the flocks of which they have been the legally appointed 

 shepherds could never have fallen into the poverty, ignorance, 

 vice, and crime, the physical and moral wretchedness which 

 we see around us, and for which we see at last that there must 

 be found some remedy, or the whole nation will be lost. 



A great part of the sins of England are sins of ignorance, 

 heavily punished now ; less heavily, we have a right to hope, 

 liereafter ; but there must be retribution for those who have 

 selfishly and wickedly allowed a people to fall into and con- 

 tinue in such a state of ignorance and its accompanying degra- 

 dation and misery. 



