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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Vol. 100: From July to December, 1830; Part the Second
But the present Ministers excite hepes upon another and to us ex tremely interesting subject. It has long been a disgrace to England, that Science and Literature receive slight encouragement from the Government, compared with the fostering care which they meet with in other countries; and for the want of which, in the present deteriorated state of the public taste, standard Literature has almost disappeared, whilst in Science we are far behind our continental neighbours. At no former period were there so many persons in ofice who are known to the world by their literary produc tions and under the auspices of a Brougham and a Mackintosh, aided by such of their colleagues as have sought that permanent fame which letters, and letters only, confer, we are sanguine in believing that something worthy of so literary an Administration will be done to remove this stigma from the national character.
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