34 THE ROYAL INSTITUTION. [CHAP. I. 



noble and most beneficent that warms the human 

 heart, can be distinguished.' 1 



To excite emulation praise, distinctions, rewards 

 are necessary ; and these were all employed. 



The House of Industry for the Poor and the Military 

 Workhouse were quite separate in their management, 

 though they were so dependent on each other that 

 neither of them could subsist alone ; one building 

 served for both. 



Twice yearly small sums were given to the poor to 

 assist .them in paying for lodgings, and ultimately a 

 large house was bought and fitted up as an hospital 

 for those who were infirm and unable to take care of 

 themselves. 



Means were adopted for giving relief to those who 

 nevar were beggars, but who, from poverty and in- 

 ability to provide the necessaries of life, were involved 

 in distresses and difficulties which they bore in silence. 



Persons of distinguished birth even sent to the House 

 of Industry at Munich for flax, or wool, or linen, which 

 they manufactured into goods, and received the usual 

 amount of wages ; and some who had been accustomed 



1 The great mistake which has been committed in most of the 

 attempts to introduce a spirit of industry where habits of idleness have 

 prevailed, has been the too frequent use of coercive measures. Force 

 will not do. It is address which must be used on those occasions. The 

 children in the House of Industry at Munich who, being placed on 

 elevated seats round the hall where other children worked, were made to 

 be idle spectators of that amusing scene, cried most bitterly when their 

 request to descend from their seats and mix in that busy crowd was 

 refused ; but they would most probably have cried still more had they 

 been taken abruptly from their play and forced to work. Men are but 

 children of a larger growth, and those who undertake to direct them 

 ought ever to bear in mind that important truth. 



