Thomas Daywas a British author and abolitionist. He was well known for the children's book The History of Sandford and Mertonwhich emphasized Rousseauvian educational ideals... (wikipedia)
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
There are certain forms in which vice appears not only monstrous, but ridiculous; the cruelty of Nero is more disgusting than that of Tiberius.
Let us remember, there is a people, who share the government and name of Britons; among whom the cruelty of Sparta is renewed without its virtue.
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