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implements in use. Indeed, it may be considered as a model 

 farm. A considerable number of the pupils were lads, who pay 

 the expenses of their education arid living by their labor. The 

 number of pupils at this institution, which has heretofore been 

 very great, furnished the best possible market for the abundant 

 produce of the farm. 



CXLVL LODI S BENEVOLENT ESTABLISHMENT. 



I found one humble establishment of a philanthropic character, 

 of which I deem it my duty to take notice. In a quiet and 

 secluded village in the canton of Berne, I went with some friends 

 to visit an humble peasant by the name of Lodi. He was a man 

 of powerful intellect and extraordinary decision of character. 

 His resolution once fixed, he was not easily turned aside from its 

 execution. His mind from his childhood was profoundly im 

 pressed with a strong sense of religious duty, and his heart was 

 warm with sympathy and benevolence for his fellow-men. He 

 had received the advantages of a good common education, and 

 had done much towards improving himself. He had a very 

 small patrimony left to him ; he married early, and had one 

 child. He found in his wife a mind and resolution congenial 

 with his own. Looking with pity upon many orphan and for 

 saken or neglected children about them, he determined to do 

 what he could towards rescuing some of these unfortunate chil 

 dren from the almost certain ruin which menaced them ; and 

 his wife and himself agreed to receive as many of them as would 

 be given to them for this purpose, and as they could possibly sup 

 port by their united exertions. When I visited them, they had 

 eighteen under their care, whom, in fact, they had adopted, for 

 he made no difference between their treatment and that of his 

 own child ; and they were all taught to look upon him and his 

 wife as their parents, and themselves as brothers and sisters. 

 They lived with them, and worked with them as their own 

 children. He devoted a certain portion of every day to giving 

 them a useful moral and religious education, and the rest of the 



