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Updated: May 29, 2025

Schools there were none save the grammar schools of Edward and Elizabeth. The rural peasantry, who were fast being reduced to pauperism by the poor-laws, were left without moral or religious training of any sort. 'We saw but one bible in the parish of Chedda, said Hannah More, at a far later time, 'and that was used to prop a flower pot. p. 707, Harpers' ed. 1870.

Sir John George Bourinot - The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People