A Vindication of Mr. Lancaster's System of Education from the Aspersions of Professor Marsh, the Quarterly, British, and Anti-Jacobin Reviews, &C. &

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812. Excerpt: ... ful, able and professional superintendence and control. The schools, with their masters and mistresses would naturally fall, and in the spirit of the canon law, (and even in its letter, if adapted to the existing state of the church and of education) Do Already fall under the inspection and direction of the parochial clergy. The attention of Protestant Dissenters is earnestly directed to these extraordinary passages.--It must be observed, that Dr. Bell passes by the Stat. 19 Geo. III. as totally unworthy of regard. This Statute was made for an extension of the Toleration Act and the further relief of Protestant Dissenting Ministers and School-masters. It was a complete repeal of the canon law in as far as Dissenters are concerned, yet the Doctor will not allow it to fall within his notice; and he speaks of what the law exacts, just as if no legislative interference had taken place on the subject. If Lord Sidmouth had acted upon this plan he needed not to have taken the trouble to have brought in a Bill to amend the Toleration Act--he might simply have read those penal laws of the Statute-book which were repealed by the Toleration Act, and have said, see what the law exacts--you have nothing to do but to enforce it, and proceed against Dissenters, by fine and imprisonment. This is a subject to which as yet Dissenters have paid very little regard--they have been too much attached to the plan of schools according to their own sectarian views, instead of embracing the comprehensive plan of Mr. Lancaster. I trust, however, that some faithful guardian of religious liberty will examine this matter, and sound the alarm against the present combination of intolerance. Dr. Bell refers to the canon law, as if it were the law of the land, acts of toleration and rel...