THE MODERN THEME: OR EDUCATION, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHT AND A NATION'S GLORY: BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A LECTURE ON THE BRITISH SYSTEM. BY CELATUS. "That the soul be without knowledge it is not good." BODLE LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY HOULSTON & STONEMAN, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCI.IV. 260.9. 132 176. The long-tried, consistent, and successful champion of popular and unsectarian Education, THIS VOLUME ON THE SUBJECT OF EDUCATION, OR ON THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SYSTEM, IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, ACCOMPANIED BY THE PROFOUND RESPECTS OF HIS LORDSHIP'S HUMBLE AND OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. THE DEDICATORY ADDRESS. MY LORD, THE ensuing pages are not dedicated to your Lordship from any selfish ends, as is evident from the author designating himself in the titlepage "Celatus." Nay, he would fain convey the impression that his motives are diametrically opposite to the humble and the sordid: being none other than those of real admiration of your private life and public principles. Also, the singular interest you have always taken in national, or, what might be called, popular education. The great amount of toil and anxiety you undergo at present, as it is supposed, in maturing a legislative enactment on the subject, and the decided partiality you have evinced, and that deservedly, to the British system, by maintaining the education of some hundreds of poor children on that scheme, from your private and ample resources, these, and many others, are strong and additional inducements for taking the present step. |