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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 edition. Excerpt: ...one million two hundred thousand grown persons, who, through poverty or negligence of their parents, have never been taught to read. Such persons, it should be recollected, are not only incapable of filling many stations in society for which they might otherwise be qualified, but are cut off from all personal access to the Holy Scriptures, that fountain of religious and moral instruction. --In the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, the picture is still more deplorable, notwithstanding the diffusion of education amongst the poor inhabitants of the low-lands. From the first Annual Report of the Society in Edinburgh, for the support of the Gaelic school in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, it appears, that the number of persons in those parts who cannot read, amounts to nearly three hundred thousand t--It also appears, In an Address by the Secretary of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, delivered in i 803, at the Crown. and Anchor Tavern, in London, that out of three hundred and thirty-five thousand persons in the Highlands, it was computed that three hundred thousand understood no other language than Gaelic, so far at least as not to comprehend a book written, or a continued discourse spoken, in any other. In a report made by the Committee of the Edinburgh Society, the 15th of Januarj, 1811, is the following paragraph: From the experience of several successive years, one of our number can inform you, as the result of actual experiment, that among the numerous bands who come southward in the time of harvest to reap our fields, he has not found one in ten capable of reading the simplest passages bf sacred Scripture. This, however, is now known to be a favourable specimen of the countiy: the inhabitants of...

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