[Gutenberg 8940] • An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
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- Authors
- Foster, John
- Tags
- philosophy , literacy , religious education , great britain -- social conditions -- 19th century , education , missions -- india , writing
- Date
- 1820-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.23 MB
- Lang
- en
Excerpt from An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
It has in a considerable degree grown out of the topics of a discourse delivered at a public meeting, assembled in promotion of the object and means of the Bristol Auxiliary British and Foreign School Society. That discourse was, in accordance with the character of the place and assembly, substantially of the nature of a. Religious address to a religious congregation. It was introduced by a sentence from the Bible, serving indeed rather as a motto than as a for mal basis of the discourse.