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of the lowed clafs, above what the employments 

 they ought to be bred up to can require : this 

 robs the public of labouring people, and fets 

 thefe children upon an equality with thofe of 

 their benefadors, which muft confequently hurt 

 the benefadors children, by increafing the num- 

 ber of their order -, for many of thefe children 

 of the poor, when thus educated, will, in the 

 rifmg generation, out-ftrip, circumvent, and dif- 

 place the children of their benefadors, at a time 

 when few of the benefa6tors themfelves are liv- 

 ing to fee the confequences of their miftaken 

 charity. To fupport the poor in times of necef- 

 fity, and to inftrudt and train their children in a 

 habit of induftrious labour, is real charity -, and 

 its confequences tend to the good of focie- 

 ty. Men of great eftates, I think, fhould be 

 educated in proportion to their fortunes, and 

 above thofe of the middling people ; becaufe 

 out of fuch are generally chofen the governors 

 and diredors of ftates, as well as thofe who a6b 

 as magiftrates in their feparate divifions ; fuch 

 ought to have knowledge and experience above 

 that of the bulk of mankind whom they are 

 defigned to govern. As to gentlemen who have 



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