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Excerpt from Education (Ireland): Speech of Thomas Wyse, Esq. M. N the House of Commons, on Tuesday, May 19, 1835
A 2some such measure, I ventured, in the former year, with no hope of immediate success, but with a certain confi dence of future, to solicit even a momentary attention to the first Bill ever introduced into Parliament for Irish Education. That Bill I should have pressed to a positive decision of the House, notwithstanding all the difficulties with which I felt it was surrounded, had I not apprehended embarrassing, by such discussions, the progress of the Re form Bill then pending and against which was arrayed every sectarian as well as political prejudice, in either country. I received, too, the assurance, that many of its provisions would be reduced to early trial, by the then Government, in the form of an experiment; and I had hopes that new aid would be thus afforded in every future discussion, from the strong evidence of experience. The Bill was proceeding to a second reading in September - when Parliament was pro rogued; and in the following October, the then Secretary for Ireland (mr. Stanley), with a courage and wisdom which bear, indeed, a favorable contrast to the pusillani mous and purblind policy of former governments, con''sti tuted in his Instructions to the Duke of Leinster, the present Board of Irish Education, g''n almost the recise model in the Bill. More than two years''li''aifé ~ri''ciw''e apsed since - that important experiment was first risked. In despite of every evil prophecy. Calculated and intended to realize what it foreboded - in despite of every impediment which disappointed favoritism, political and religious bigotry. And,i am willing to believe, honest, though mistaken appre hensions have thrown in its wax - the, experiment (as I shall be enabled amply to prove in Committee) has, as far as it was intended to go, most thoroughly succeeded. I may be asked, then, why disturb its progress, or endanger the already effected good, by attempting something better? Simply, because this progress is at this very moment ex posed, from the want of some legislative sanction, to con tinual disturbance and, secondly, because the good on which we have to congratulate ourselves is far, indeed, below the standard, which I am as certain as I am that I am standing here, we are fully able to attain.
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A 2some such measure, I ventured, in the former year, with no hope of immediate success, but with a certain confi dence of future, to solicit even a momentary attention to the first Bill ever introduced into Parliament for Irish Education. That Bill I should have pressed to a positive decision of the House, notwithstanding all the difficulties with which I felt it was surrounded, had I not apprehended embarrassing, by such discussions, the progress of the Re form Bill then pending and against which was arrayed every sectarian as well as political prejudice, in either country. I received, too, the assurance, that many of its provisions would be reduced to early trial, by the then Government, in the form of an experiment; and I had hopes that new aid would be thus afforded in every future discussion, from the strong evidence of experience. The Bill was proceeding to a second reading in September - when Parliament was pro rogued; and in the following October, the then Secretary for Ireland (mr. Stanley), with a courage and wisdom which bear, indeed, a favorable contrast to the pusillani mous and purblind policy of former governments, con''sti tuted in his Instructions to the Duke of Leinster, the present Board of Irish Education, g''n almost the recise model in the Bill. More than two years''li''aifé ~ri''ciw''e apsed since - that important experiment was first risked. In despite of every evil prophecy. Calculated and intended to realize what it foreboded - in despite of every impediment which disappointed favoritism, political and religious bigotry. And,i am willing to believe, honest, though mistaken appre hensions have thrown in its wax - the, experiment (as I shall be enabled amply to prove in Committee) has, as far as it was intended to go, most thoroughly succeeded. I may be asked, then, why disturb its progress, or endanger the already effected good, by attempting something better? Simply, because this progress is at this very moment ex posed, from the want of some legislative sanction, to con tinual disturbance and, secondly, because the good on which we have to congratulate ourselves is far, indeed, below the standard, which I am as certain as I am that I am standing here, we are fully able to attain.
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Thomas Wyse
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