Clergy Reserves : A letter from the Lord Bishop of Toronto to the Duke of Newcastle, her majesty's secretary for the colonies.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canada, was to be disposed of like an insignificant Railroad or Village Corporation.Yet such is really the case !A Bill is now in progress which will enable the Provincial Legislature to pass measures of the most revolutionary character, infringing the rights of 1,214,742 persons out of a population of 1 .,842,265,without so much as making them previously aware of the intentions of the Imperial Government, or deigning to allow them a voice or even an humble supplication on the subject.We have been lulled into a false security, and led to believe that it was impossible that any measure would be introduced on a matter which so deeply concerns this great Colony, without being afforded a full and convenient opportunity of pleading our cause.Even now, the provisions of the Bill before the House of Commons are unknown to us.All that we do for certain know is, that a total change in dealing with the Clergy Reserves and Church property in Canada, has taken place in Her Majesty's Councils, and that the three Churches ot England, Scotland, and Rome are, of a gndden, in danger of being wholly deprived of their endowments, without being allowed to say one word in their defence.All we gather from your Grace's despatch is, that Her Majes- ty's Government accedes to the prayer of the Legislature of Cana- da, for placing the Clergy Reserves at its disposal,-and that no sentiments of regret at the disturbance of the present settlement would justify the Government or Parliament in witholding from the Canadian people through their representatives the right of dealing as they think fit with matters of strictly domestic interest.And further, that the Parliament, of Canada, and not the Parliament of the United Kingdom, is the body to which the functions of legislation on this subject must, for the public advantage, be committed.Now, my Lord Duke, I most respectfully submit, that these opinions or grounds for legislation are much more than neutral- ized by the proceedings of the late administration, by the repeated avowals of the Legislature of Upper Canada and the constant persuasion of the members of the Church of England, that the Im- perial, and not the Provincial Parliament, is the proper tribunal for deciding the question ; -and this, as I shall afterwards show, was the conviction of Lord Sydenham, one of the most able of our Governors, and the most thoroughly acquainted with our religious difficulties.I am willing to admit that these two grounds may appear some- what plausible to those who are only partially acquainted with the
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.101 | 0.020 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".