Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . THE LATE EIUIITEEXTH 1, Iiish or Union V\])e^, wiili bellows. 2, Hurdy-gurdy (Vieille), by Louvet of Paris. 3, bagpipes, with 4, Musical glasses on Benjamin Franklins , Piano by Zunipe, London, 1770. (3, Dulcimer, with beaters. {Brj permission of the Rci: F. W. Galpin.) 684 DEVOLUTION AXD BEACTIOX. [1784 Sunday Schools were everywhere established. The siifteriiiirs
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . THE LATE EIUIITEEXTH 1, Iiish or Union V\])e^, wiili bellows. 2, Hurdy-gurdy (Vieille), by Louvet of Paris. 3, bagpipes, with 4, Musical glasses on Benjamin Franklins , Piano by Zunipe, London, 1770. (3, Dulcimer, with beaters. {Brj permission of the Rci: F. W. Galpin.) 684 DEVOLUTION AXD BEACTIOX. [1784 Sunday Schools were everywhere established. The siifteriiiirsof children began to excite sympathy; in 1803 an Associa-tion for improving the situation of infant Chimney-sweepers was formed. The strict observance of Sunday had the support of nearlyall the advanced moralists of that day. As if to show thatthe reformers of 1800 stood exactly where the reformers of1700 stood (IV., p. 810), there was Wilberforces new societywith the old title for the Reformation of Manners, and an Association for the Better Observance of the Sabbath. In1787 the king had issued a proclamation against vice, asWilliam and Mary had done before him. Wilberforce seized. BAKERS TOKEN COMMEAIORATIXGSUNDAY OBSERVANCE, 1795. the moment to start his society. He found the Archbishopof Canterbury deeply impressed with the torrent of profane-ness which every day makes more rapid advances. Botharchbishops and all the bishops joined, six dukes, and manyof the nobility. The society no longer encountered anyhostility. It was a serious, self-conscious time, a time when seriousnessof purpose told to the full. Finish of manner was at a discount,but an outward moral decorum was expected. Private indul-gences were suffered so long as the public was not insultedby their exhibition. In 1768 a few persons of delicacy hadconsidered it shocking that the Duke of Grafton, then FirstLord of the Treasury, should lead his mistress, Nancy Parsons,in triumph before the queen. In 1802 Fox had t
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