id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 8940 Foster, John An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance .txt text/plain 92734 2546 46 times the people felt toward the higher classes and the existing order of having intelligent subjects.--Great effect which a general the generality of persons in the higher classes respecting the mental knowledge which an ignorant people did really possess, could be of little common with the people, looked on human existence and duty through a worse But let us now look, for a moment, at the intellectual state of the people state of the people was quite such as would naturally cause it, in men deplorable mental condition of the people remained in no very great degree _let_ a multitude of its people grow up in a condition of mind to believe, been superior in natural capacity to the generality of ignorant persons; notions of popular rights have come into the minds of the people very much state of things, there are a considerable number of the people who _might_ ./cache/8940.txt ./txt/8940.txt