Note 7 — A LETTER, &c. &c. &c.
Reading edition
“Corporal punishment, it is said, is degrading. I well know of what feeling this is the expression; it originates in that proud notion of personal independence which is neither reasonable nor Christian, but essentially barbarian. It visited Europe in former times with all the curses of the age of chivalry, and is threatening us now with those of Jacobinism.” Arnold’s Miscellaneous Works, page 365.