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Clergy monopoly stalls national primary education
The piece argues clerical predominance, not reform, has blocked broad public schooling in Britain. It cites 1807 Whitbread plans, the Lancasterian Society, the National Society, and the 1820 Brougham proposals, detailing how establishment ties favored church control and hindered secular, universal instruction.
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St. Paul
House of Lords
Lancasterian Society
Joseph Iiacaster
Brougham
Mr. Brougham
Hardihood
National Society
Privy Council
Common Schools
America
James Graham
Duke of Newcastle
Carlisle
J. G. Cromwell
Herbert Birley
Moses Angel
W. A. Shields
Airkbeck