[General literacy would] teach [the poor] to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture, and other laborious empl… - Joseph Banks

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[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.