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A tax for the support of religion, we believe to be unnecessary ; 

 as the voluntary contributions of piety and philanthropy are its meet 

 support : but a tax for the support of the disabled poor, is dictated by 

 humanity itself; though to discourage pauperism, those who are able 

 to work should be supplied with work and kept employed. A tax 

 in behalf of elementary education, is, we think, of fundamental im- 

 portance ; as tending to promote good order ; to prevent poverty, 

 vice, and crime ; and to increase the amount of human happiness, by 

 raising the scale of intellectual refinement and enjoyment. This is 

 the best, and, perhaps, the only remedy that can be recommended, 

 to prevent the excessive increase of population, which takes place 

 chiefly among the poorer and less enlightened classes of society. 



