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The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FEEEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINEAND REVIEW .
MARCH 31 , 1852 .
THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
THE most superficial observer of the passing events , and of the progress of affairs during the last quarter of a century , cannot fail to have noticed the growing interest , which has been taken in the better education of the working classes ; while the profoundest thinkers , and the most sagacious minds ,
regard the subject as one of the most pressing necessities of the age . But while there is this general conviction of the necessity of a system of education , which shall embrace the whole of the children of the classes , to whom we have alluded , the most earnest spirits have been too frequently baffled ,
if not altogether checked , in the attempts to devise a plan , which should give practical effect to a wish , confessedly all but universal . Divided in opinion on some fundamental principles , or on some ! mere matter of detail , —which has been invested by
prejudice with a factitious importance , —men , who have a common conviction of the necessity of the case , have been unable to take up and occupy a broad ground , as the basis , on which they should commence their united operations against the ignorance and vice , which have reduced multitudes VOL . in . ' B
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
THE FEEEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGAZINEAND REVIEW .
MARCH 31 , 1852 .
THE BOYS' SCHOOL .
THE most superficial observer of the passing events , and of the progress of affairs during the last quarter of a century , cannot fail to have noticed the growing interest , which has been taken in the better education of the working classes ; while the profoundest thinkers , and the most sagacious minds ,
regard the subject as one of the most pressing necessities of the age . But while there is this general conviction of the necessity of a system of education , which shall embrace the whole of the children of the classes , to whom we have alluded , the most earnest spirits have been too frequently baffled ,
if not altogether checked , in the attempts to devise a plan , which should give practical effect to a wish , confessedly all but universal . Divided in opinion on some fundamental principles , or on some ! mere matter of detail , —which has been invested by
prejudice with a factitious importance , —men , who have a common conviction of the necessity of the case , have been unable to take up and occupy a broad ground , as the basis , on which they should commence their united operations against the ignorance and vice , which have reduced multitudes VOL . in . ' B