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petitors. I doubt whether vanity, in any instance, ever 

 surveyed itself with more self-gratification than did 

 some of these poor people when they first put on 

 their new dress. 



How necessary is it to be acquainted with the se- 

 cret springs of action in the human heart, to direct 

 even the lowest and most unfeeling class of mankind ! 

 The machine is intrinsically the same in all situations. 

 The great secret is, first to put it in tune, before an 

 attempt is made to play upon it. The jarring sounds 

 of former vibrations must first be stilled, otherwise 

 no harmony can be produced ; but when the instru- 

 ment is in order the notes cannot fail to answer to 

 the touch of a skilful master. 



Though every thing was done that could be devised 

 to impress the minds of all those, old and young, who 

 frequented this establishment, with such sentiments as 

 were necessary in order to their becoming good and 

 useful members of society (and in these attempts I was 

 certainly successful, much beyond my most sanguine 

 expectations), yet my hopes were chiefly placed on the 

 rising generation. 



The children, therefore, of the poor, were objects 

 of my peculiar care and attention. To induce their 

 parents to send them to the establishment, even before 

 they were old enough to do any kind of work, when 

 they attended at the regular hours, they not only received 

 their dinner gratis, but each of them was paid three 

 kreutzers a day for doing nothing but merely being 

 present where others worked. 



I have already mentioned that these children, who 

 were too young to work, were placed upon seats built 

 round the halls where other children worked. This was 



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