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do, to lessen my indignation against Jacob, and thereby 

 have warped my moral sense for ever ; while the great 

 apocalyptic spectacle of the ultimate triumph of right 

 and justice might have been turned to the base purposes 

 of a pious lampooner of the Papacy. 



And as to the second objection costliness the reply 

 is, first, that the rate and the Parliamentary grant together 

 ought to be enough, considering that science and art 

 teaching is already provided for ; and, secondly, that if 

 they are not, it may be well for the educational parlia- 

 ment to consider what has become of those endowments 

 which were originally intended to be devoted, more or 

 less largely, to the education of the poor. 



When the monasteries were spoiled, some of their 

 endowments were applied to the foundation of cathedrals ; 

 and in all such cases it was ordered that a certain portion 

 of the endowment should be applied to the purposes of 

 education. How much is so applied ? Is that which may 

 be so applied given to help the poor, who cannot pay for 

 education, or does it virtually subsidize the comparatively 

 rich, who can ? How are Christ's Hospital and Alleyn's 

 foundation securing their right purposes, or how far are 

 they perverted into contrivances for affording relief to 

 the classes who can afford to pay for education ? How 



But this paper is already too long, and, if I 

 begin, I may find it hard to stop asking questions of 

 this kind, which after all are worthy only of the lowest 

 of Radicals. 



