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WSUre we that I can reform the Church, and unite the 1848.
Wesloyang with the Establishment. Ar, 42
“That zealons and excellent educationalist, Stone, of
Hasgow, seized upon me yesterday. ¢I have often thought,’
%id he, ¢ that, Lord Ashley or Mr. Colquhoun was the man
"carry a system of National Education tirough Parliament.
Bug they have not moral courage; if you will take it in
hang, in less than four years you will get a vote of twenty
Williong, and reconcile all the religious parties to one uniform
stem of religions education’ I replied that I had tried
My hand on s small scale in the attempt to unite the sects in
Lancashire in 1836, but that I took to the repeal of the
Com Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult
task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree
" suffer the people to be educated. The next time I
Meet Dickens or Jerrold, I shall assuredly give them a bint
o a new hero of the stage or the novel, ‘The Popular
J an?

“In answer to your kind inquiries after my health, I am
happy to say I am pretty free from any physical ailment.
1b ig only in my nervous system that I am out of sorts.
The last two or three months have kept me on the rack,
4 worried me more than the last seven years of agitation.
But if 1 could get out of the treadmill, and with a mind ab
%%0 take a twelvemonth’s relaxation and total change of
“ene and climate as far off as Thebes or Persepolis,
hers there are no post-offices, newspapers, or politicians,
Ls0e no reason why I should not live to seventy; for I
have faith in my tongh snd wiry body and a temperament
Uturally cool and controllable, excepting when my mind
5 harassed as it he been by circumstances connected
With my private concerns, which I could not grapple
With and master, solaly because I was chained to another
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