No, my Lord; an educated people will be a thinking people--a thinking people will be an independent people--but an independent people will not be a manageable people; and if that is not placing the subject in a satisfactory light, I know not what is.
"I need scarcely assure you, my Lord, that in my own humble way, I did everything I reasonably could to discountenance the education system.

I even went so far as to prevent several of the tenants from sending their children to these schools; but, as usual, I experienced but little gratitude at their hands, or at those of their parents.

This, however, was not so much owing to my interference, as to the accidental circumstance of three or four of them having been hanged or transported for crimes which they were base enough to impute to the ignorance occasioned by my principles--for so they spoke.
"Such then is the condition of the Ballyracket tenantry.

They are not in arrears, and you may consequently guess at the wretched state of their moral feelings.

They are, in fact, every day becoming more aware of the very kind of knowledge which we don't wish them to possess.