An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance

By John Foster.

Revised and Enlarged Edition.




"A Work, which, popular and admired as it confessedly is, has never
met with the thousandth part of the attention which it deserves. It
appears to me that we are now at a crisis in the state of our country,
and of the world, which renders the reasonings and exhortations of
that eloquent production applicable and urgent beyond all power of
mine to express."

Dr. J. Pye Smith.




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what would be expected in a composition of the essay class were worth a
very few words of explanation, it might be mentioned, that the
following production has grown out of the topics of a discourse,
delivered at a public anniversary meeting in aid of the British and