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How should that System of education tend to form
good Citizens, that System under in which every
quality of a good Citizen is in disgrace?
Good Citizens? they very term makes them
shudder "God forbid - let us have a term
so d It stinks of republicanism - let us leave it to the
French to whom whom it is familiar"- Their very
pretensions go no further than to the forming
of good subjects-

What opposition indignation to abuses, there where every
thing is abuse?

What indignation - against Breach of Trust,
when the only lesson taught by 20 Professors which 20 Professors are employ'd in teaching?
is Breach of Trust?

What respect for the Laws in general, where
the only expedient thought of [put in practise] in use - practised to avert contempt is of them is
against the contempt of the Laws, is to
cultivate inattention? the neglect of them.

What zeal for the correction of inconvenient
Laws, where the continual breach of Laws
which a profane superstition has turned into
so many Oaths is a less evil than the

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trouble of examining looking into them?

What frankness of demeanor: where tokens
of humiliation are exacted [from the youth] by When a Pedant shall exact from a company of youth Where of humiliation
a Company of Pedants to which no other
spot is paid in the Kingdom paid by a son to the severest father,
nor by the meanest peasant to his
Sovereign?

At Queens if a Fellow peeps out at an end
of a Quadrangle, or of the long walks which
go the length of both Quadrangles, in short
any where in sight, off goes the Cap of
an undergraduate who is at the other end of all the undergraduates who are 50 of them.
To undergraduates that are upon the foundation

With respect to From those that are Gentleman - Commoners For the Ghost of the Founder may be upon the watch, or a Fellow may be seeing tho' not seen.
the submission tho' equally claimed is less rigorously
exacted - Gentleman Commoners pay
to the Tutor as much again as Commoners
many of them have livings in their gift,
and all of them are rich-Why else is it
less rigorously exacted? Is it from age? seniority there
age is the same - Is it from standing, the pre-

TERRAE FILIUS.
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They teach just notions of Government? the Divan
would as soon.

It is to Oxford that young men [aught to are<add>should</add>] go
to be made thoroughly sensible of the distinction
between rich & poor. Every where of the pre-eminence among Gentlemen between Rich & poor
else in every well bred company no distinction
is perceived - In this there is a degree of
consistency - th the rich to have so little
share in the next world, it's fit it should be
so muuch better in the present.

This circumstance may be one of these by which
secretly influence [some persons fond of their rankof rank
are influenced in the] contribute to render
some persos of high rank so strongly attached
to Oxford. They soon are not sorry to leave a place
to send their children where they may these
deferences & obediences which nobody could be
found 1 to 3 pay them any 2 where else.

The ascendant inequality which mere riches [& birth
inevitably unavoidably create between men in other respects for the integrity & for the equal diffusion the notion of which is to augment the same happiness among for the mankind dynasty
equal is at any rate too great every
where: here every expedient is set to work
to make it greater.


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In this they are consistent the is nothing extraordinary But if these
have an interest to go to be worshipped,
what interest have others to go & worship them?
Not so the man of credenceforesight & reflection - he knows, that
the consciousness of a an acknowledgedsuperiority by what
ever meansone set of means accruingbe it what it will over other men, is a
dispensation from all endeavours to require
it by others. If riches and or work alone
will purchase what all that riches &in rank & virtue The Logic is obvious & is powerfully supported by the principles of levity & indolence natural to youth.
& knowledge will purchase together, what
need of knowledge & of virtue?

sumption evidence of knowledge? The standing
is the same. I have said Fellows in general.
but these prerogations are confined to
those of the old foundation - Those of the old
are Ecclesiastics - Those of the new are not.

Yes some have an interest, or think + they havehope to have one + hope they to still have one by it
Oxford is one of the grand great marts for

For a great Register Office a Statute for Clients & Protectors
- for Clients in Livery under the several
namescharacters of Chaplains, Domestic Tutors & Travelling Tutors.
For Clients out of livery without a name
For Clients Hangers on ready prepared to the sorrow of their
motlay function, by the sacrifice of liberty, & thee

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032

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terrae filius

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jeremy bentham

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