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of intercoui fe is not deemed a very common virtue 

 among them. But this animated afFedlion, once 

 excited, will be kept alive without difficulty, by the 

 continued benefits found to refult from the connexion 

 between themfelves and their benevolent fuperiors. 

 Under fuch a patronage the moil worthy among 

 the poor would become improved into ftill better 

 examples to the lefs worthy. Emulation, then, 

 infenfibly Aides into the bofom of the flothful, 

 and of confcquence their mod obnoxious habits 

 become gradually corredled. All the laborious part 

 of a diftrid, on fuch a plan, would be animated to 

 ftrive as in one common caufe, feeling one common 

 interefl, looking to one common fecurity 1 The 

 fmall dedudion of three-pence per week would 

 be compenfated by the triumph that the idea of ^ 

 fii7id of their own would infpire. Their children 

 would naturally catch fomething of the fenfa- 

 tion, and be more prompt and alert in their little 

 exertions. The principle of independence, fo con- 

 genial to the human mind, thus foflercd, would 

 grow with their growth, and ftrengthen with their 

 itrength. The moral effect of this principle, 

 rightly cheriHied, is a wonderful improvement of 

 the mind itfelf, and would be found not only the 

 moil powerful flimulus to induftry abroad, but to 

 the befi ioecon©my of tfie family at home. From 



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