140 THE EARLY HISTORY OF [CHAP. III. 



louvres for supplying rooms either with tepid or fresh 

 air. 



' There will be small models of inventions at a 

 very cheap price, with engravings and explanatory 

 descriptions useful to those who are unable to 

 employ the persons recommended by the Institution 

 or to examine them in actual and constant use at the 

 Institution.' 



Mr. Bernard's report ends thus : * Though the charter 

 is not yet obtained, and the Institution may be con- 

 sidered only in its infancy, the subscriptions already 

 exceed 8,OOOZ. 



'It is not very easy to calculate what may be 

 eventually the progress of the Institution, and what its 

 influence on the condition of the poor. If it is followed 

 up with an equal zeal and attention on the part of the 

 conductors, and it receives the support it merits from the 

 public, its effects must be extremely beneficial and im- 

 portant. For, without adverting to the general advan- 

 tage of a new species of employment and amusement 

 being afforded to the higher classes of life ; and science 

 and useful occupation being brought into some degree 

 of fashion; it must be apparent to everyone that, 

 without some such means, the poor can never receive 

 all that benefit and assistance which the efforts and 

 co-operation of many are now directed to procure for 

 them ; and that the improvement of the domestic 

 comfort and means of industry in the cottage, the 

 promotion of health, the economy and well-being of the 

 inhabitants of poor-houses, hospitals, manufactories, 

 and other public establishments will never be effectually 





