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admitted, on the part of the inferior classes. So far from 

 looking upon this as most of my countrymen are disposed to 

 regard it, and as I should regard it in my own country, as a 

 mark of extreme servility, in a country where such distinctions 

 are established by law, and make a part of the government, it 

 seems to me as much to the credit of their good sense, as it is 

 conducive to their good manners, to conform to them. In any 

 institution of this kind, in my own country, no such difficulties 

 can arise ; and it might seem idle for me to allude to them, were 

 it not that an occasional, and I hope not unseasonable, illustra 

 tion of the manners of England will interest the curiosity of a 

 large portion of my readers. 



In the next place, it seems to be designed, and certainly it is 

 very desirable, that the farm shall be managed by the labor of 

 the pupils j and it is proposed that the proceeds of the farm 

 should go towards the payment of the rent, and the reduction 

 of other expenses of the establishment. This is, in my opinion ? 

 as it should be ; and, with the exception of one or two more 

 experienced laborers, who, in their particular departments of 

 ploughing, &c., should be competent to act as instructors of the 

 pupils, and with a few servants, (and they should be very few ? 

 for servants, in almost all places of education, are commonly a 

 great evil, and the best of all. training for the young is that 

 which compels them, in a great degree, for all personal services 

 at least, to depend upon themselves,) the whole labor of the 

 farm should be performed by the pupils. This would be, of all 

 others, the most effectual way of making them acquainted with 

 the subject, and the only way, indeed, in which they can 

 become thoroughly acquainted with many of the operations on a 

 farm. I am curious to know how this labor is to be had ; 

 whether it is to be voluntary or by compulsion ; and how, 

 among two hundred pupils, it is to be apportioned and equalized. 

 If made voluntary, it certainly will not be equally rendered ; 

 .some will not work at all ; and preferences for some kinds of 

 work, and distaste for others, which of course must be expected 

 to exist, will be found inconvenient. If the labor is made com 

 pulsory, the enforcing of it will not be easy ; and it would be 

 difficult to find the young men, likely to resort to such a place 

 of education, disposed to submit to any arbitrary exactions of 

 this nature. How fnr it is practicable to make it mercenary, and 



