Their whole account of the origin of the Infant System is as partial and unjust as it possibly can be.

Mr.Simpson, whom they quote, can tell them so, as can also some of the committee of management, whose names I see at the commencement of the work.

The Central Society seem to wish to pull me down, as also does the other society to whom reference is made is the same page of which I complain; and I distinctly charge both societies with doing me great injustice; the society complains of my plans without knowing them, the other adopts them without acknowledgment, and both have sprung up fungus-like, after the Infant System had been in existence many years, and I had served three apprenticeships to extend and promote it, without receiving subscriptions or any public aid whatever.

It is hard, after a man has expended the essence of his constitution, and spent his children's property for the public good, in inducing people to establish schools in the principal towns in the three kingdoms,--struck at the root of domestic happiness, by personally visiting each town, doing the thing instead of writing about it--that societies of his own countrymen should be so anxious to give the credit to foreigners.

Verily it is most true that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.