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casions, otherwise it would be impossible to prevent 

 abuses. An establishment designed for the encourage- 

 ment of genius, and for calling forth into public utility 

 talents which would otherwise remain buried and lost 

 in obscurity, would soon become a job for providing 

 for relations and dependants. 



One circumstance relative to the internal arrange- 

 ment of this Academy may, perhaps, be thought not 

 unworthy of being particularly mentioned ; and that is 

 the very moderate expense at which this institution is 

 maintained. By a calculation founded upon the ex- 

 perience of four years, I find that the whole Academy, 

 consisting of 180 pupils, with professors and masters of 

 every kind, servants, clothing, board, lodging, fire-wood, 

 light, repairs, and every other article, house-rent alone 

 excepted, amounts to no more than 28,000 florins a 

 year, which is no more than 155 florins, or about four- 

 teen pounds sterling a year for each pupil ; a small sum, 

 indeed, considering the manner in which they are kept, 

 and the education they receive. 



Though this Academy is called a Military Academy, 

 it is by no means confined to the education of those 

 who are destined for the army ; but it is rather an 

 establishment of general education, where the youth 

 are instructed in every science, and taught every bodily 

 exercise and personal accomplishment which consti- 

 tute a liberal education, and which fits them equally 

 for the station of a private gentleman, for the study of 

 any of the learned professions, or for any employment 

 civil or military under the government. 



As this institution is principally designed as a nursery 

 for genius, as a gymnasium for the formation of men, 

 for the formation of real men, possessed of strength 



