the Poor in Bavaria. 275 



The dropping the manufacture of any particular 

 article altogether, or pursuing it less extensively, could 

 produce no bad effect upon the general establishment ; 

 but the lowering of the price of labour in any instance 

 could not fail to produce many. 



It is necessary in an undertaking like this cautiously 

 to avoid every thing that could produce discourage- 

 ment and discontent among those upon whose indus- 

 try alone success must depend. 



It is easy to conceive that so great a number of 

 unfortunate beings of all ages and sexes, taken as it 

 were out of their very element, and placed in a situa- 

 tion so perfectly new to them, could not fail to be pro- 

 ductive of very interesting situations. Would to God 

 I were able to do justice to this subject ! But no lan- 

 guage can describe the affecting scenes to which I 

 was a witness upon this occasion. 



The exquisite delight which a sensible mind must 

 feel upon seeing many hundreds of wretched beings 

 awaking from a state of misery and inactivity, as from 

 a dream, and applying themselves with cheerfulness to 

 the employments of useful industry, upon seeing the 

 first dawn of placid content break upon a countenance 

 covered with habitual gloom and furrowed and dis- 

 torted by misery, this is easier to be conceived than 

 described. 



During the first three or four days that these poor 

 people were assembled, it was not possible entirely to 

 prevent confusion. There was nothing like mutinous 

 resistance among them ; but their situation was so new 

 to them, and they were so very awkward in it, that it 

 was difficult to bring them into any tolerable order. 

 At length, however, by distributing them in the differ- 



