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Excerpt from Thoughts on Public Schools: A Sermon Preached at Sutton's Hospital in the Charter-House, on Founder's Day, 1875
Have been represented by men of ability and honesty, as mischievous to the common weal. For myself, I do not believe this doctrine to be true, even for the present day. I believe it to owe its origin, and any popularity that it can boast, to the abuses which have crept into the management of almost all foundations. I rejoice in the claim of the legislature to act as supreme visitor of all charities. In the existence of a supreme visitorial court, which can not only enforce law but amend it, I see the best guarantee which is attainable against abuses of every kind, the best guarantee which is attainable for the per petual application of pious gifts and bequests to good and fruitful uses.
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