Universal Education Considered, with Regard to Its Influence on the Happiness and Moral Character of the Middle and Lower Classes: And the Probable Tendency of Its Indiscriminate Application, to the Increase of Crime. to which are Added Suggestions to the Legislature, Relative to a Salutar Control of Popular Education. By One of the PeopleWhittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1829 |
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