[General literacy would] teach [the poor] to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture, and other laborious employment to which their rank in society has destined them;... it would enable them to read seditious pamphlets, vicious books, and publications against Christianity; it would render them insolent.
English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences (1743-1820)
Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (February 13, 1743 – June 19, 1820) was an English naturalist and botanist.
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Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet
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Sir Joseph Banks
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Banks
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Sir Joseph Banks, 1st and last Bt.
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Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, 1st and last Bt.
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Joseph, Sir Banks
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