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Edmund Burke: Can we with justice cut them off from the use of places of education founded for the greater part from the economy of…

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Can we with justice cut them off from the use of places of education founded for the greater part from the economy of poverty and exile, without providing something that is equivalent at home?
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Edmund Burke

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Burke questions the justice of denying education to certain groups without providing alternatives.

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