; 




cfc, wit ee W 
© Wrnofe, o have thus @ 
€20 
hood and error; who cenfures that which 
is good, and approves that Phich is bad ; 
whofe praife 1s difgrace, and whofe ac- 
tions and enterprizes are ie r®, 
hiftorian has allowed the co 
neither judgment, nor hor 
the good-natured poet, 
the cand 
. Even 
has had 
o acknowledge, that the 
opinion of the vulgar may fometimes be 
oe ferupled to {peak of them 
i : headed m ee ek to” 
er 






have be anvicea asta ee 
of fu a fiupid, oublefome, and un= 
manageable Sas beafts of burden, formed 
only to toil and fweat, that their fupé= 
“Fiors may Jive in eafe and, Juxury | 
wheels in the great machine of c 
merce, in w high no other powef is re- 
d, than that of moving in their pre- 
er places; or,laftly, as mec ee : a 
iments of defence or hoftilit¥, to ki I 
be Ail/cd off, at the pleafure of their 
jeaders; and not lefs blindlygunder their 
direction, than the gun he bayonet 
swhich i ‘Is 5 put into their hands. 
ame, be an} ground for thefe 
us notions of the common 
ft ¢an only be found in that 
ai Mleh their degraded ftate 
: dered almoit u eee” 
judices which®thei 
thought it their intereft 
Phe wealthy and powerfu 
afraid of ¢ vue 
hat light wwhich would en@ole 
them to fee bot ir rightSeand their 
wrongs. Te v ’e Maad@de ad mono- 
Be os their wi ae pe it up in 
the fchools, or througings it adder the 
veil of hies@gip phics and “ny ftefies. In- 
stead of provid 















or in thofe 
oe have 






oviding for the “infiruction of 
the multitude, or even leavi ing them to 
them biaffed operation of their rational 
powers, at.bas been the conitar 
to inftitu sftems ofjge! he dif- 
honeft pur re of feeding cred ulity and 
ight | have 







fubjugate 
underftandings, in order | 
vulgar igno- 
their wills, to compiain o 
Tance and prejudice ? Firft'to put out a- 
man’s eyes, nd then to blame him for 
finding his path, is to add infult to 
cruelty. 
es 
« 




* Charron, + Tacitus. | ee vulous 
‘re€ium videx. § eves: mgt ltorum yfiite “th. 
I Odi pro-fanum wulgus & GF artes, Ge: Filor 
= 
/ 
The Enguirer. 



great end 














rf 
+ [Sept. 
Philanthropy muft)reprobate the idea 
of keeping men ignorant, order to 
‘Keep them flaves. qo wicde i the na- 
al food mind; and to- deny men 
€ oppor y of attaining it, is@$ un- 
juft, as to withhold from them the means 
of acquiring their daily bread. Capable 
as every mam’ is by nature of deriving 
pleaiure and benefit from the exef€ife of 
his intell€€tual powers, it becomes one 
ot {ccial alliance, to.furnifh 
zal with the means” of in- 
No. VIII. 










each in 



creafing his flores of rational -cnjoy- 
ment, “by im proving cerftar.d- 
ie fides the ine of 
; pins which, well reé- 
ate fot fociety, would be the 
eet & increating pe iedcak 




] oe a. gener 
people. It te eo 
ation of the underflanding, 
crofinefs of brutal manners 
ed, that the, violence. 
and pation can be re- 
1 that man can ndered 
jable to man. "No one, 
y compared the character 




D a! 
‘© mild and 
who has aétuia 12 




: a poor, “in different plagess ee 
‘that the eafieft and fureft’method 
making men good citizens, is to afford ~ 
1em means and sppordllliies of informa- g 
on. 
Admit ee the utility of public inftruc- 
ticn,as a pointgvhich be controvert- 
re ee by thefe who Rave finiiter ends 
ferve by “eepine the people in igno- 
raiee, it is imp ortant to enguire in what 
manner this bufinefs has hitherto been 
cond ua and in what refpeéts it is ca- 
pable of improvement ? In the moft ci- ’ 
Vilized natioms of antiquity, the commu- 
= en of § 
showledve to the common 
ars to have been ali 
nei en-= | 
ted ; the idea feems Were 
x : Aceafred to hee en-] 
hg ened philoto hers; and it would 
cult to gnd, in rhe tine 
lent Gr or Roman 
flection of neceflit 
pular inftructicn. :Somea 8 
deed, of more than ordiné y  panewel ence, 
took upon themfelves the charaQiee of & 
moral infirugters. Pythagoras and’ So- © 
crates, are hedraces names whith corse — 
inder this defcription. OF the former, 
ae that_at Sain mcs, his native place, — 
a femici x building, in which the > 
nhabitants had been accuftomed to ae ’ 
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