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which the persons to be reclaimed have commonly been 

 offended and thoroughly disgusted at the very outset. 

 Force will not do it : address, not force, must be used 

 on those occasions. 



The children in the House of Industry at Munich, 

 who, being placed upon elevated seats round the halls 

 where other children worked, were made to be idle 

 spectators of that amusing scene, cried most bitterly 

 when their request to be permitted to descend from 

 their places 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. 



That impatience of control, and jealousy and obsti- 

 nate perseverance in maintaining the rights of personal 

 liberty and independence, which so strongly mark the 

 human character in all the stages of life, must be man- 

 aged with great caution and address by those who are 

 desirous of doing good, or indeed of doing any thing 

 effectually with mankind. 



It has often been said that the poor are vicious and 

 profligate, and that therefore nothing but force will 

 answer to make them obedient and keep them in order ; 

 but I should say that, becatise the poor are vicious and 

 profligate, it is so much the more necessary to avoid 

 the appearance of force in the management of them, to 

 prevent their becoming rebellious and incorrigible. 



Those who are employed to take up and tame the 

 wild horses belonging tO the Elector Palatine, which 

 are bred in the forest near Dusseldorf, never use force 



