 | John Bird Sumner - 1818 - 448 pages
...majority of our community; and with ignorance a host of evils disappear. Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only...supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy. As fast as the standard of intelligence is raised, the poor become more and more... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1825 - 468 pages
...majority of our community; and with ignorance a host of evils disappear. Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only...supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy. As fast as the standard of intelligence is raised, the poor become more and more... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1825 - 446 pages
...excellently observed, in reference to the diffusion of education, that — " Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only...supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy. As fast as the standard of intelligence is raised, the poor become more and more... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1833 - 658 pages
...Sumner; 'Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only sure mode of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition.' Colquhoun, the able investigator of the police of London, observes ; ' In my opinion, there is too... | |
 | 1854 - 618 pages
...somewhat respecting the education of the poor and labouring classes. " Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable; because the only true secret of assisting the poor is by making them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus,... | |
 | John Francis Bray - 1839 - 224 pages
...from the evils connected with an indigent and unemployed population ; for it is confessed that — " the only true secret of assisting the poor, is to...supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy." The admissions of the economists go not only to show that the present social system... | |
 | Society for improving the condition of the labouring classes - 1840 - 168 pages
...makes his habitual employment an exercise of practical religion. "Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only...supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy. As fast as the standard of intelligence is raised, the poor become more and more... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1843 - 510 pages
...of Chester (Dr. Sumner), in his ' Records of the Creation,' — " Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only...supply them, not with a temporary stimulus but with a permanent energy. As fast as the standard of intelligence is raised, the poor become more and more... | |
 | 1843 - 948 pages
...Portfolio. IXDIOEKCK NOT OFTEN POUND IN COMPANY WITH OOOD EDUCATION. Of all obstacles to improvement ignorance is the most formidable, because the only...the poor is to make them agents in bettering their o*n condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy. As fast... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1849 - 686 pages
...well observed, in reference to the diffusion of education, that — " Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable ; because the only...supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy. As fast as the standard of intelligence is raised, the poor become more and more... | |
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Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy.... 
