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intend to carry them into execution, as far as a considerable 
capital will permit. Already part of the boys’ school is so 
ar organized that they make shoes for themselves, and will 
soon do it for the whole community. 0 will likewise 
have work-shops for tailors, carpenters, weavers, &c. in the 
school, all of which trades will be alternate practiced, 1 by 
way of recreation from their mental labour of Arithm 
Mathematics, Natural History, &e. as a useful ewe for 
gymnastics; to which will be added agriculture and garden 
ing. We have pcm 400 children belonging to the society, 
besides strangers from the different parts of the Unio 
girls are taught the same things as the boys, by seis 
Fretageot, and are classed, alternately, to work in the cotton 
and woollen mills, and in washing, cooking, &c. (for no 
servants are permitted in the society, — every one must do 
mething for himself, yn not working above half a day on any 
one kind of labour, thereby alleviating tee th by variety. 
Youth of both. sexes have been unjustly treat forcib. 
€njoining on them tasks to perform as useless and unnecessa- 
, as they were beyond their comprehension, and so differ- 
ent from all the occupations of men whom they saw daily em- 
ployed on operations which they were prevented from W- 
ing, or imitating, by their parents or ctors. — 
strong propensity to imitation, which, if indulged, iad 
make education the apprenticeship of life, is crushed an 
crossed, rendering their: time a burthen to them, and au 
menting their misfortunes in the same ratio as their linens is 
diminished... My experience does not permit me to doubt, 
that children, under proper management, can feed and clothe 
themselves by the practice of the best and most useful part of 
their instruction ; and in place of being.a oo eye one 
be a help to all-eonnected with them. — 19884; 
The schools here will be on o— +: = ae we 
men of talent, and perfection of machinery, as to con 
them the first 3 in jie Loaeine for every species of useful know- 
ce Freed from the whims and seals Ft of custom, as 
our 
physical inventions. 
All children, as well as men, if not oc occupied in doing 
good, will most probably be doing harm, either to themselves 
