[Gutenberg 8940] • An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance

[Gutenberg 8940] • An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
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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.