IGNORANCE OF THE PEOPLE.
If the people of England are yet too generally ill-educated and grossly ignorant and prejudiced, it is to be recollected that our civilization is recent, that our towns are of yesterday's date, and that the character of a people can only be changed with time. Allowing, therefore, with the able author of the article on the Causes of the Population, in the last number of tho Edinburgh Review, that " what with nonsense verses at school, and novel reading, Apocrypha controversies," and other misapplications of time, notwithstanding all that is said about the march of intellect, and the efforts to multiply sixpenny systems," we are still greatly deficient as a people in knowledge ; we contend that the desire of knowledge, especially among the young, is decidedly on the increase, and that there is no cause to despair of the future.
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